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Horseshoe crabs have weird, bright blue blood

6 Jun

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Horseshoe crabs have bright blue blood. They are like aliens. (Does this one not look like a dead alien?) Nature, you are weird.

Robert Krulwich explains why the crabs’ blood is so beautifully blue:

Their blood kind of sloshes around in their bodies carrying oxygen to various organs, as our blood does.

Our blood is red because we use hemoglobin to move oxygen around.

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