How to Use horseshoe crab in a Sentence

horseshoe crab

noun
  • Among the sea life present were lobsters, horseshoe crabs, and shellfish.
    — Michael Walsh, Courant Community, 3 July 2018
  • As a species, the horseshoe crab is more than 425 million years old.
    — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 12 May 2023
  • For instance, horseshoe crabs can live in shallow coastal waters as well as deep ocean floors.
    — Scott Travers, Forbes, 7 Sep. 2024
  • Humans owe a debt to the strange-looking, ancient horseshoe crab.
    — Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 June 2020
  • What were these strange fossils that looked like horseshoe crabs and were so deeply embedded in the rocks?
    — Caroline Winterer / Made By History, TIME, 14 Jan. 2025
  • Fishermen also capture horseshoe crabs and use them as bait for eels and conch.
    — Benji Jones, Vox, 28 June 2024
  • Combined, the two fisheries kill over half a million horseshoe crabs every year.
    — Kristoffer Whitney, Fortune Well, 13 Oct. 2023
  • Let the kids get hands-on with shrimp, horseshoe crabs, octopi and small sharks in the facility’s touch tanks.
    — Susan McDonald, The Providence Journal, 26 Mar. 2026
  • But their utility is one of the reasons horseshoe crabs are hunted by humans, putting them at risk.
    — Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Oct. 2023
  • Moonlight even sharpens the visual acuity of horseshoe crabs, which come ashore on certain nights to mate.
    — Ferris Jabr, Smithsonian, 21 June 2017
  • Great hordes of prehistoric-looking horseshoe crabs also are coming in to spawn.
    — Charles Seabrook, AJC.com, 16 May 2026
  • Native fish and horseshoe crabs swim in both saltwater and freshwater pools.
    — Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Feb. 2023
  • The story of the horseshoe crab highlights a paradox of evolution.
    — Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 7 Jan. 2026
  • With its dome shape and spiky tail, the horseshoe crab might at first look like a fearsome visitor from another planet.
    — Oli Turner, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 July 2024
  • That makes the closest living analogue of trilobite eyes the eyes of the horseshoe crab Limulus.
    — Lisa Raffensperger, Discover Magazine, 11 Apr. 2013
  • Some other living fossils include the coelacanth, the horseshoe crab, and the nautilus.
    — Joseph Castro, Discover Magazine, 17 Aug. 2011
  • At low tide, damp cordgrass dotted with horseshoe crab shells stretches for hundreds of yards in every direction.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 26 Sep. 2019
  • The birds need meaningful protection of horseshoe crab eggs to be able to recover, Niles said.
    — Patrick Whittle, Fortune, 31 July 2023
  • Shorebirds and horseshoe crabs Animals move.
    — Torben Rick, The Conversation, 18 June 2026
  • The horseshoe crab's new family is just further emphasizes how much left there is to discover about these creatures.
    — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 28 Feb. 2019
  • Since then, New Jersey has banned the harvest of horseshoe crabs altogether.
    — Maddy Lauria, baltimoresun.com, 22 June 2019
  • But horseshoe crabs show how stability itself can be a form of evolutionary success.
    — Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 7 Jan. 2026
  • There are also some familiar creatures, including arthropods such as crustaceans and horseshoe crabs, as well as sponges, starfish, and worms.
    — Byelizabeth Pennisi, science.org, 1 May 2023
  • Tanks are filled with fish and sea creatures; brave kids can gently (with two fingers) touch lobsters, quahogs, horseshoe crabs, sea stars, and other marine life.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 6 June 2018
  • The defendants are also barred from holding horseshoe crabs in ponds before being bled — a process that critics say kills some and weakens others.
    — Jon Hurdle, New York Times, 15 June 2023
  • For nearly 300 million years, the sea creatures resembling modern horseshoe crabs scoured the oceans.
    — Fiza Pirani, ajc, 4 May 2018
  • The birds’ arrival to Delaware Bay overlaps with the yearly horseshoe crab spawning.
    — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 June 2023
  • Scientists usually associate those body parts with marine arthropods such as horseshoe crabs.
    — Shraddha Chakradhar, CNN Money, 10 June 2026
  • Most of the horseshoe crab blood is in the gills, and LAL technicians only use a small portion contained in sinus sack.
    — Doug Fraser, USA TODAY, 16 June 2020
  • This is why the biomedical industry’s reliance on horseshoe crabs is now sparking ethical debates.
    — Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 7 Jan. 2026

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