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Quang Ninh isn’t just famous for its majestic landscapes but also for its unique local delicacies like sea worms, horseshoe crabs, blood cockles, and sand worms that both intrigue and delight food ...
NYC Parks is investing in the future and we need your help. Our volunteers help with forest and wetland restoration, planting and pruning street trees, harvesting and propagating native seed and ...
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While New Jersey horseshoe crabs come ashore in May and June each year to lay eggs, they are also sometimes seen on beaches in great numbers in earlier spring – as they have been, mostly deceased, in ...
Have you ever seen an animal with Blue Blood? While this may sound unusual, animals with blue blood do exist. While most vertebrates, including humans, have red blood cells due to hemoglobin, some ...
Indianapolis Zoo and Eli Lilly are part of a push to move medical industry away from using horseshoe crab blood and towards synthetic genetically engineered alternatives. Horseshoe crab blood has ...
Learn more. Coastal Rivers Conservation Trust is seeking volunteers for a long-standing community science program that collects data on horseshoe crab populations in the Damariscotta River estuary.
Horseshoe crab blood is highly valuable because it contains a unique substance called Limulus Amebocyte Lysate (LAL), which is used in a test to detect bacterial endotoxins. This test, known as ...
The Eli Lilly company says it uses the synthetic material, rather than horseshoe crab blood, in about 80% of their testing. Indianapolis Zoo and Eli Lilly are part of a push to move medical industry ...