This subphylumincludesmembers like spiders and scorpions but don’t worry; the spiked tail of the horseshoe crab ― called the telson ― is harmless and is used to right themselves if tipped over.

Horseshoe crab eggs, ... Their long spike of a tail, known as the telson, helps them flip over if they get stuck on their backs. Their five pairs of eyes give them excellent night vision.

Horseshoe crabs have seven eyes. Horseshoe crabs are harmless to humans. They cannot bite or sting. Their pointy tail is used for movement, not as a defense mechanism, and their "claws" are not ...

When you walk down the beach and see the brown, armored shell of a horseshoe crab, with its 10 eyes and spiked tail, it’s like looking at a living fossil.

Something ancient still walks the world’s shorelines—creatures with armored shells and spiky tails that seem plucked from the pages of a prehistoric epic. Horseshoe crabs, with their alien ...

As all seven pairs of horseshoe crab legs continued to shuffle under a dome-shaped shell, Sasson demonstrated the correct way to hold the horseshoe crab. The long, stiff tail, known as a telson ...

The best places to see them include Slaughter Beach, DuPont Nature Center, Kitts Hummock and Pickering Beach, but horseshoe crabs can be spotted up and down the Delaware beaches for most of the warm ...

Never move them by their tail. Wildlife: 5 most snake-infested lakes and ponds in Delaware. ... The Atlantic horseshoe crab is the only horseshoe crab species that lives outside Indo-Pacific waters.

Never move them by their tail. Wildlife: 5 most snake-infested lakes and ponds in Delaware. ... The Atlantic horseshoe crab is the only horseshoe crab species that lives outside Indo-Pacific waters.

Never move them by their tail. Wildlife: 5 most snake-infested lakes and ponds in Delaware. ... The Atlantic horseshoe crab is the only horseshoe crab species that lives outside Indo-Pacific waters.

Never move them by their tail. Wildlife: 5 most snake-infested lakes and ponds in Delaware. ... The Atlantic horseshoe crab is the only horseshoe crab species that lives outside Indo-Pacific waters.

Never move them by their tail. Wildlife: 5 most snake-infested lakes and ponds in Delaware. ... The Atlantic horseshoe crab is the only horseshoe crab species that lives outside Indo-Pacific waters.