This crab could save your life – if humans don’t wipe it out first

Horseshoe crab outlived dinosaurs but is no match for medicine’s hunger for its blood.

Few people in the world are aware their wellbeing may one day depend on a blue-blooded crab that looks like a cross between the facehugger from Alien and a gigantic louse. Fewer still realise this ancient creature now faces its greatest threat in more than 450m years.

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