minus-squareMadgePickles@lemmy.dbzer0.comtoScience@lemmy.ml•Scientists face impossible choice over preservation of priceless blue crab blood: Let vital medicines wither or an endangered birdlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 years agoBlue blood from a horseshoe crab yes. Blue crabs are also a thing and horseshoe crabs are always referred to with the word horseshoe in front. So calling them just crabs with the word blue in front is a poor choice if one cares about communication. linkfedilink
minus-squareMadgePickles@lemmy.dbzer0.comtoScience@lemmy.ml•Scientists face impossible choice over preservation of priceless blue crab blood: Let vital medicines wither or an endangered birdlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 years agoHorseshoe crabs not blue crabs linkfedilink
Blue blood from a horseshoe crab yes. Blue crabs are also a thing and horseshoe crabs are always referred to with the word horseshoe in front. So calling them just crabs with the word blue in front is a poor choice if one cares about communication.