B.C. by Mastroianni and Hart for September 20, 2024

Nerds of the animal world?

Is that a platypus?

Aww, they have a club. Protect the snake.

The Enigma Club!

“If you do not belong anywhere, you belong with us.”

… and my blood is copper based instead of iron like yours, so it is green instead of red.

I’m a human, a hairless ape with barely more common sense than the hairy type.

And all three survive to this day. Horseshoe crab fossils have been dated to 300 million years.

You sure? He is seem kinda crabby.

Feel sorry for that crab, if it didn’t get to be president, it would be destined to spend the rest of its life in B.C. as the footwear on a horse’s shoe!

“One of us…one of us…one of us…”

Why is the snake there? Or is that something else?

“AND he is a blue-blood!”

Limulus amebocyte lysate.

Horseshoe crabs have been around for about a half BILLION years and have survived every mass extinction. Show some respect.

Makes for a diverse group!!!!!!

Future club presidents include the dodo and the passenger pigeon?

and don’t forget magic blood that all modern medicine depends on.

Who’t the Leader of Out Club?

M-I-C-K-E-Y MOUSE!

…don’t forget that horseshoe crabs also have blue blood…. so they are arthopodic royalty!

The eatanter must be busy…..

In other words, “You win!”

Visualize, if you will, the first window full of seawater.

Echidna (aka spiny anteater) seems to be missing. Like the platypus it lays eggs.

Close to what a horse shoe crab looks like. Still around to, One very freaky creature, can see how they relate to fossils.

Why do we want a club president who’s going to die in about five days because he’s out of the water?