This "Scary" Creature Saves Millions

Discover the surprising truth about horseshoe crabs! These ancient creatures might look intimidating, but their blue blood holds a remarkable secret - it's used to ensure the safety of vaccines and countless medical treatments.

[@user-ls3dd7pi9k]

That's sick. Mad science.

[@Ehehehhhhh5]

You are alive and well thanks to mad science idiot

[@PracticalNeuron]

in the name of science,i guess

[@Ehehehhhhh5]

Well what can we do about that

[@traindawg21]

It's a Kabuto Pokemon..

[@0mar-777]

Hence where they got it from

[@JeridMesa-MRA-1462]

DARTH BANES ORBALISK ARMOR

[@user-xh4tk1rw8w]

Okay.Enough info.Time to go harvest some Horseshoe crabs.

[@cian4380]

Fr, a few liters of this I'd be set for years

[@ryananzaldi3082]

IDK why you call this dude terrifying. I literally see this thing 30+ times in the summer.

[@labigbossssssssss]

Every year, about 500,000 Horseshoe Crabs are collected from the bays and estuaries of the Mid-Atlantic states to be harvested for their blood. Up to 30 percent of an individual Horseshoe Crab's blood is drained at a time, after which the animal is returned to the sea.

[@humanhuman7280]

And the worst? They dont even get candy for donating blood

[@erikacsigi7192]

Is it alive after it’s blood has been Harvested? Seems so hostile and cruel

[@labigbossssssssss]

@erikacsigi7192 it's like when we donate blood, I guess... but idk if it hurts them or nor. I thought they were killing them for their blood but looks like they are not.

[@hexane8]

Couple cycles of that and they're going to have some major PTSD

[@hi_now.go-awayshoo9502]

What in the mad scientist draining blood vampire experiment was that

[@user-fu7tp9nz3h]

That’s a flip load of blood they drawing

[@babydriver056]

"he looks like a cutie patootie"

[@Like_Mike_i-just-did-it]

Where does it see out of..? Like how?

[@whotfisboap4746]

its eyes

[@Mario-G-Man]

Those things are aliens!! 👽

[@masoudahmad4348]

If my memory was right, lobsters blood are blue to right??? Do they have the same thing like the horse shoe crab????

[@spongeboi9368]

Their blood is copper based, hence why it's blue. While our blood is iron based, which is why it's red

[@rodneyharris9681]

They are from space.. Real Shit..!!!

[@HoracioOrtiz]

Crazy how someone figured out to use this creature for human use.

[@zspndigitalarchive]

The day you realize we’re the weakest species w the best attribute your mind changes Animals to generalize don’t need to cook food to certain temps Don’t need the structure to live an brave the elements Don’t need vehicles to travel or weapons to defend themselves Nor do that innately need the medication we often need to live on after injury or sickness they naturally instinctively find them Yet our ability to translate thought to creation has built this complex that we are supreme We can’t even exist in the ocean & out the ocean at the capacity a turtle does lmaoo But we carry this ego of “domain over earth”

[@hexane8]

I'I'm just glad nobody's grabbing us up and sticking a straw up our ass and draining us of blood every other weekend, like these unfortunate homely Blue bloods.

[@user-gf3ry7ul7q]

Chemistry is apart of biology in all species, some animals, bugs, and plants carry certain properties that can be made into medicine

[@ront2708]

Injecting people with crabs… fair enough mate

[@user-vr8re7dn3l]

It's so cute! Look at its eyes 👀

[@thaiboy6093]

We lived by the ocean when I was young me and my grandfather. We catch them. They don't have much meat. The eggs that what we want is so good believe me

[@scottshanahan4107]

If we need the blood of others to live, maybe we're not meant to live?

[@nickyrr78]

Dumbest shit I ever heard

[@melovibezz]

Kabuto is real😭😭

[@MichaelN-km4bx]

15.00❌️ 15,000 ✅️

[@gemsht0ne]

Oof. Are their heads cut off in the lab? Like bleeding a cow? I'm no peta person, but yikes 😬 😕

[@Patricia-ht4jv]

Someone said they are collected & returned to the sea after a certain amount of blood is taken. They probably use some sort of needle device.

[@quierski]

horseshoecrab is not a crab

[@user-ey1wg6sp6n]

It won't hurt us , but you use it for money!? Can't they just duplicate it! I've seen one in 68, dead in class 😂😂😂😂

[@derrontraylor5981]

Time to milk some crabs

[@hexane8]

Ain't that from Mass Effect?

[@anthonybrown8686]

The water of life!

[@MichaelCoblee]

why would you harvest a crab dog

[@krishelfferich3487]

Welp...I hope they get anesthesia.

[@johanhavred5047]

Its lives in Denmark

[@KarinaDejesus-xc1gi]

Me being allergic to shellfish

[@aryanfudail6556]

I have this shell in my grandpa home

[@nosukyrie_11]

Oh yea sure. Its a "lovely" way to steal the life of creatures. Shame!

[@jeremiahsocuano6308]

Now i want one

[@tommyg3991]

there is no hell THIS IS HELL

[@chicozoe6076]

lol some of the aliens species do the same too humans

[@AnjoDaikan]

I know a pokemon when i see one

[@OneGameOneDay111]

One wrong evolution and we could have ended up like that

[@TheCloudPeeple]

Dune Juice

[@Januaryof28]

They dead😮

[@jogregeorge]

I do not want to touch it😅