When I was a teenager we went to a beach on our way back north from the Carolinas. There were thousands of horseshoe crabs washing up and on the beach that were dead or dying. I keep trying to find out if this is common or if something had happened.
While its strange it may be a result of scientists harvesting their blood in order to create lal (which helps check to see if any medicine is contaminated) and while they only take 1/3 of their blood it sometimes lead to their death due to being weakned by the loss of blood
@@ThatGuyE-gp3lh It is, taking some of their blood isn´t the 100% chance of their survival, it´s just an excuse really. Heard some companies doesn´t bother to release them back at all
I remember these neat creatures that looked like they came from the dinosaur age when I lived in Dover, Deleware. You had to be careful not to step on them but they didn't bite and were so very interesting.
Yeah I’m driving my Jeep along the beach of the Delaware Bay with my head out the window like Ace Ventura so I can avoid hitting these things! They’re freakin prehistoric!
I saw this several years in Cypress Point Park in West Tampa on the beach there. I emailed the info to an oceanographic organization with a video. They were pleased to know that mate there. Very interesting creatures.
Just think about this briefly, a human can say have 5 offspring (sometimes)... a horseshoe crab can produce 20k offspring. We are like 225x the size of one of those.
Only a small fraction of those eggs will survive because of predators and other factors. People used to have lots of children over 100 years ago because the mortality rate was quite high and child birth was very dangerous before medical science advanced.
No shut up you're not a female , you don't have to give birth , giving birth looks extremely terrible especially carrying an organism in the stomach sounds crazy and makes me light headed :(
It's fine that we are harvesting their blood as long as it benefits the human race but when you cut down a tree you gotta plant more. It's the same for these horseshoe crabs. We gotta start breeding them so they don't go extinct not only for their benefit, but for ours too.
So we’re the vampires of their species. Imagine living 500 million years without evolving and one day these weird apes show up and start draining your blood on racks lined with your brethren. Creepy. I mean at least we operate on blood donation rules and don’t kill the crab and it’s blood helps aid our medical discoveries but humanity be creepy sometimes
Thing is... Video doesn't mention it (you will find others that do mention it) The blood operation makes them weaker, add that to beaches being filled with US, natural predators and more, their populations are decreasing. Taiwan's sub species was declared extinct, some are vulnerable and some endangered. Really hope they will survive, or we find a way to synthethise their blood.
When the video first started and you heard all those loud pitched noises I thought those were the crabs I was like holy cow but then I realized they were just birds
I don't think people understand how important the blood of these animals is. The blood of these animals go into almost everything in the medical universe without these animals the humans would not be able to thrive as well as we do we would have to find a different animal whose blood would be nowhere near as valuable as the horseshoe crab
I don't know why, but I find Fallout 3's Mirelurks more terrifying that 4's due to the the fact that they mutated so much that they can walk on two legs like a human being
we now have huge factories! HUGE factories where these crabs are strapped to walls, partially dissected and farmed of their blood!??? thousands of them!??? tortured for days weeks??? guess what for??
It's more like they get 100 or so, fold em, stick a tube in there and let them pretty much painlessly bleed for a few hours or maybe a day then set them free.
It's so cute when they bump into each other
XD
*bonk*
lol
XD
I hope they survive our era.
They survived the "Great Dying" that killed 96% of all life, I'm sure they'll survive this era
They've survived four mass extinctions. One more shouldn't be a problem.
Mass extinction is nothing compared to the sheer destructive potential of being stupid-
@@Cl-2048Sorry bud but mass extinction and the destructive capabilities and destruction of the planet by humans is not the same. They will die.
They've endured plenty of mass extinctions and yet they still exist.
Hope they helped that little guy in the end
Ewww. They don't even wear masks in public.
@@tsriftsal3581 oh shut up 🤐
@@tsriftsal3581 THIS WAS BEFORE COVID EVEN EXISTED😢 (I can’t tell if your joking or not feel free to /woooosh me)
@@fieryrealnofakenorealomg oh sorry. Yes, I was joking.
it's a baby of a kabuto and a facehugger
😂
Not only that, but the danger of the two canceled out. These should only be scary if you're a small crustacean, worm, or plant.
They d survive for million of years until they meet us.
500 million
Humans ruin everything tbh
Wasan Suttikasem your right they survive for millions and for billions of year but when they meet us they are died😂😵
Wasan S. We're we can find
We need their blood for medicines.
do you feel it now Mr Crabs?
H. Ortiz
No Mr Crab’s is over there! You’re feeling the wrong crab
Lol
Mr. Krabs
Horseshoe crabs arent crabs
Does Ye feel it now Mr. Krabs? 💂♂️
How the heck is a living fossil getting more than me
Been in the game a long time
real
When I was a teenager we went to a beach on our way back north from the Carolinas. There were thousands of horseshoe crabs washing up and on the beach that were dead or dying. I keep trying to find out if this is common or if something had happened.
While its strange it may be a result of scientists harvesting their blood in order to create lal (which helps check to see if any medicine is contaminated) and while they only take 1/3 of their blood it sometimes lead to their death due to being weakned by the loss of blood
@@ThatGuyE-gp3lh It is, taking some of their blood isn´t the 100% chance of their survival, it´s just an excuse really. Heard some companies doesn´t bother to release them back at all
thats terrible, humans are so frustrating sometimes@@moonysek
2 Things Delaware is know for
#1 Being the first state
#2 Horseshoe crabs
New Jersey too
#3 Smash
#3. Having no sales tax.
#4. Giving us the worst President ever.
@@lhcarter 4th is a opinion not a real fact
I remember these neat creatures that looked like they came from the dinosaur age when I lived in Dover, Deleware. You had to be careful not to step on them but they didn't bite and were so very interesting.
“They don’t just rush up on the beach , hey look it’s high tide (queefing noise) and lay a bunch of eggs”
😳
😂😂
they look like bumper cars
X-O Manowar ugly ass bumper cars
@@dskilla4142 LMAOOOO 😂😂 You ain't wrong though.
Yeah I’m driving my Jeep along the beach of the Delaware Bay with my head out the window like Ace Ventura so I can avoid hitting these things! They’re freakin prehistoric!
Them: Horseshoe Crab
Me, an intellectual: *Kabuto*
Dude I watched Kamen Rider Kabuto but that's a rhinoceros beetle
@@lawrencehortizuela4978 bruh, its a pokemon
It is kabuto
@@recon-m2f from what I remember Kabuto is also the Japanese term for beetle.
yes
They are an amazing species.
Yes. I love horseshoe crabs
They do nothing
Shut up
@@fokjohnpainkiller 😂😂😂😵💫
Their blood contribute to medical research@@fokjohnpainkiller
I live close to a Delaware bay and i say goodmorning and goodnight to them because they are so adorable and good creatures..
3:08
Crab: pls don't disturb me I'm doing yoga
Camera man: too bad I'm going to stalk you :3
That horseshoe crab cannot flop itself over so that horseshoe crab is going to stave to death
One of my favorite animals, next to the tardigrade.
Me to
Yeha but the tardigrade is just too op
You have a very exotic taste in animals...
Wait till he finds out that water bears can temporarily survive the vacuum of space
jak2587 they are only immune to radiation, space, heat, and cold, you could (and do) squish em all the time
1:03 had me dying 😆 and
Brian Sheehan me yo
I saw this several years in Cypress Point Park in West Tampa on the beach there. I emailed the info to an oceanographic organization with a video. They were pleased to know that mate there. Very interesting creatures.
These creatures my friend are older than dinosaurs :)
These creatures have been around for 450 million years???? Without ANY changes in their bodies???
ye
living fossile
they will be around long after us
@@lv1543 if we don't make them go extinct...
Before and after the time of The Dinosaurs
I was today years old seeing this crab for the first time!! Wow! So cool! I’m from the west coast USA
Dude I always forget that these things aren't actually extinct
Agreed.
yet
Pharmaceutical industries are on their way to revert that.
Just think about this briefly, a human can say have 5 offspring (sometimes)... a horseshoe crab can produce 20k offspring. We are like 225x the size of one of those.
Well, women have thousands of eggs also, they just can’t give birth to more than a few at a time so the body dosnt let them get fertilized
A lot of those eggs are eaten by birds.
Only a small fraction of those eggs will survive because of predators and other factors.
People used to have lots of children over 100 years ago because the mortality rate was quite high and child birth was very dangerous before medical science advanced.
Kabuto!
so orgy is the reason for survival for 0.5 billion years.. lesson for humans.... :)
On the downside, the earth is already overpopulated, so lets hope we don't learn from the crabs! ;)
No shut up you're not a female , you don't have to give birth , giving birth looks extremely terrible especially carrying an organism in the stomach sounds crazy and makes me light headed :(
Michelle Hernandez Fucking feminist
Uhm...We aint no horshoe crabs were humans. That wouldnt work lmao
P.S; At least not to a certain extent if that even makes sense cuz fuck my engrish
Red Is good oh shut up
its been waiting 500 million years just to evolve into kabutops
The evolution… It never came
Correction: It's been Kabutops for 500 million years
Isn't nature AMAZING.
Amazing they lay 20,000 eggs.
It's fine that we are harvesting their blood as long as it benefits the human race but when you cut down a tree you gotta plant more. It's the same for these horseshoe crabs. We gotta start breeding them so they don't go extinct not only for their benefit, but for ours too.
I thought I loved the beach but those horse shoe crabs really love the beach LOL!
500 million years man :O
I hope the guy filming turned the poor crab over at 3:03!
Their tails are adaptations so they can flip themselves over
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Xandur heck that’s not actually true which is why in the 80s the just flip them campaign was started
They can do it underwater but it’s significantly much harder on land
3:04 Me In Bed
I've been to the beach when there spawning there are hundreds of them ,so cool knowing they been doing this for 445 million years !
So we’re the vampires of their species. Imagine living 500 million years without evolving and one day these weird apes show up and start draining your blood on racks lined with your brethren.
Creepy. I mean at least we operate on blood donation rules and don’t kill the crab and it’s blood helps aid our medical discoveries but humanity be creepy sometimes
Thing is... Video doesn't mention it (you will find others that do mention it)
The blood operation makes them weaker, add that to beaches being filled with US, natural predators and more, their populations are decreasing. Taiwan's sub species was declared extinct, some are vulnerable and some endangered. Really hope they will survive, or we find a way to synthethise their blood.
When the video first started and you heard all those loud pitched noises I thought those were the crabs I was like holy cow but then I realized they were just birds
Dat Horshoe crab though...
Are you feeling it now, Mr. Krabs?
I don't think people understand how important the blood of these animals is. The blood of these animals go into almost everything in the medical universe without these animals the humans would not be able to thrive as well as we do we would have to find a different animal whose blood would be nowhere near as valuable as the horseshoe crab
memories of tampa
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One thing that these things taught me is to always wear a helmet. They've proven helmet saves lives these past 450 million years.
I touched these at Ripley's Aquarium :)
Muito bom podemos aprender muito .
Humans could learn alot from this
Nature:makes cockroaches and tardigrade that just don't die.
Makes creatures that go extinct if you don't flip them.
"go extinct"
So they've never been upside-down for 480 million years?
This species has been doing this since before Joan Rivers was in high school. Ancient!
I’m sorry no one understood this reference.
@@holywoof6419 A Hollywood-gossip way of saying the crabs have being doing this for countless years.
I want a big one as pet and name him/her Brum
How did I get here
Should be illegal to take their blood. Insane
What because their blood helps save lives? Should definitely not be illegal just regulated
30% mortality is pretty high
Hello National Geographic, I want to ask permission to use your video for my content material. I'll put the credit later😊
good one
I Was curious about these animals since I was little. Since I love horses, horseshoe reference.
My beautiful babies.. 💜
They'll live even after our civilization while the ocean exists).
Ahh Luke Skywarkers milk.
YES
2:40 They usually die later in nature and some companies don´t bother at all to release them. ugh..
Excuse me, may I take the video for my second channel which focuses on RUclips shorts, thank you
Brave Wilderness brought me here.
They look like walking ballistic helmets with tails.
IMO Very inhumane what they do to the horseshoe crabs.
That blood..woah
Horseshoe crabs creep me out
So they've survived for 500 million years and now we killed several of them in a really small time.
Newer have I felt more proud to be human.
Uhhh, the species has been around for 500million, not each individual crab
They actually put them back did you not hear.
Or we’d be testing our drugs on bunnies
Newer or never? Hmmmm
Lu G. They said 30% not 15 you earless cheese it
اللي جاي من محاضره دكتوره صفاء يعمل لايك ❤️
That day, we had one of the best carches of the year
I have no idea what to comment... But Darude sandstorm?
Calm before the storm
DANANANANA DA NANANANANA *darude sandstorm*
Pokemon=kabuto
Real=seahorse crab
Kabuto pokemon
i want one
They help medical research advancements
We are human
We have industry
Fear us for you will be ravaged by name of profit.
HellSpoon they are put back
God please forgive me for what I am about to do
Does anyone know where to find the entire movie??
never ate horsecrab before does it taste good
it taste like a normal crab. but the egg is kinda salty.
Theyve survived for 500 million years but now are people gonna eat them....
Don't for sake people need their blood for blood disease so don't kill them.
Despite their name, they are closer to spiders than crabs... Do you like eating spiders?
neuralvibes yes
色んな顔があって人間みたいや
now they all have crabs
real horseshoe crab hours
1:04
É importante .
I need to delete my watch history
try having to watch this for a college class 😢
hey mirelurks
Corey Maine i allways thought mirelurks locked a lot more like horseshoe crabs than normal crabs
I don't know why, but I find Fallout 3's Mirelurks more terrifying that 4's due to the the fact that they mutated so much that they can walk on two legs like a human being
A living pokemon.
Very uneven audio, being a national geographic production they really need to work on their audio.
Ladies &Gentlemen: the most sexually active bowls the world has ever seen.
They lay alot of eggs but only few of them survive
Wait Till There Lvl 45 So They Evolve
I guess these were on the ark
Lets get to the big question that everyone wants to know. Is it edible?
When me and my friends get together
Do they die right there? 2:42? Back in the water?
So, they bleed blue? that's different.
Horse show crabs detect endotoxins
we now have huge factories! HUGE factories where these crabs are strapped to walls, partially dissected and farmed of their blood!??? thousands of them!??? tortured for days weeks??? guess what for??
It's more like they get 100 or so, fold em, stick a tube in there and let them pretty much painlessly bleed for a few hours or maybe a day then set them free.
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Masak lemak belangkas
Don't gotta go on ph now
1:03 when you ate mexican food