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Now a video of the horseshoe crabs having sex …
These horseshoe crabs are mating, with another male trying to see what is going on. The larger crab is the female, and the smaller one is the male. Normally the female would burry herself into the sand near shore and law some of her about 140,000 eggs, which is what she was doing about an hour earlier in the day.
Here are some pictures of two horseshoe crabs going at it. They were doing this for hours. At one point another male horseshoe crab attempted to join in on the action, but didn’t have any luck.
In the pictures where the female (larger) crab is digging herself into the sand, she is attempting to lay some of her eggs.
Photo a Day: Day 43. Here are some mating horseshoe crabs! The male is the smaller one on the back/ top, and the female is the larger crab in the front/ bottom. The horseshoe crab species is about 450 million years old, making them one of the oldest species of animal on earth.
While connected, the female will dig herself into the sand and lay up to 140,000 eggs over several locations.
