Horseshoes among us
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Want to know why horseshoe crabs are important, both to us and birds, fish, reptiles and amphibians? Then read this story in the science section of today’s NY Times. 
Here’s an entire Web site dedicated to the creatures that predate dinosaurs by millions of years.
The photo by TJN photographer Carucha L. Meuse shows a horseshoe crab at the Marshlands Conservancy in Rye in 2006.
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