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Photo of the Day #248: Dead Horseshoe crab

By laelaps on June 14, 2008.

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The upturned, sand-filled remains of a horseshoe crab (Limulus polyphemus). Photographed at Cape Henlopen State Park, Delaware on May 17, 2008.


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