B.C. by Mastroianni and Hart for August 26, 2010

Awww, poor crab!!!

And I’ll be sitting on the edge of my seat waiting for the answer!

Good Morning, Bestest Big Sister, Little Sister, ♠Lonewolf♠, Tanya & everyone else!

Unlike humans, horseshoe crabs do not have hemoglobin in their blood, but instead use hemocyanin to carry oxygen. Because of the copper present in hemocyanin, their blood is blue. Hey Star Trek fans, does this mean that Mr. Spock was really a horseshoe crab?

Two of a kind

Wow! I thought that was a talking rock.

Hello Bestest Big Sister, Tanya, MontanaLady, Grog, Lonewolf, WoodEye, Yukoner, Sheik, pouncingtiger, Nab, Gweedo Murray, and others yet still to come.

So ‘Bones’ kept on telling him anyway. He was originally supposed to have a satanic red hue but it showed up as black on B&W telly’s so they settled on light green instead…

As to the Horseshoe crab, what does it do? Survive all comers……

SHEIK I thought Spock came from the Crab Nebula?

I’m so young I only saw it on SciFi reruns.

The horseshoe crab might ask, “what does the apteryx do?” These days, I think the answer might be, not so much.

:-(

The Horse Shoe Crab as I gather is not a crab, but as a species is one of the oldest in the world.

That’s all the totally trivial trivia I have right now.

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Good Morning Tanya and Everybody

Horseshoe crabs are made for pitching.

And tipping.

Good morning, everyone!

He’s a ringer.

he does what all creatures do: he struggles to survive as long and with as least discomfort as possible

My horse shoes are RINGERS!

A horseshoe crab is an arachnid, kin to spiders and scorpions. Harmless, tho.

I’m waiting with baited breath! :D

Good Morning Grog, pamlicorat, Lonewolf, Little Sister, Gweedo, LuvH8, lightenup, Bestest Big Sister and all fellow BC’ers!!!

What horseshoe crabs mainly do is reproduce prolifically. What they do in-between is a mystery, though I assume it involves eating.

They are among my cast-of-characters in response to the cliche “Of course there is life on other planets, but it won’t be life as we know it.” Anyone who says that has no idea how weird life on this planet is. (Meat that thinks! Monkeys that talk! I mean, who could dream up this stuff?!)

Sheik I believe Spock’s blood was green.

Tanya You should try not eating the bait. :-))

More trivia: Each day, a random horshoe crab is plucked from a tank in Wisconsin and placed at a drawing table.

That crab draws that day’s Heathcliff.

Then a half-eaten pork chop writes the caption.

Sheik: Andorians’ blood is blue.

Andorians think they’re so much better than everyone else.

Aaaaah! That is the life.

Good Evening, Tanya, Little Sister, Grog, Lonewolf, Pamlicort, Sir Lew, Gweedo & Everyone!

He bleeds blue blood to keep vaccines safe.

Really. I am not kidding.