Learn horseshoe crab !!

Imagine how you would feel when dealing with something that I read in fiction story I've seen in a movie or science fiction or even a cartoon film, and then be surprised that this fantasy reality present in the ground !!

That's what happened to me when I saw the horseshoe crab for the first time in my life and I was seven years old in a carton Pokemon series while this object was known in the series as the Caputo.

I thought that this strange creature of the imagination of the author of the series, but I was surprised years later when I watched a documentary on Al Jazeera Documentary Channel or National Geographic (I do not remember exactly) to impress greatly impressed when I saw this object is the

truth !!:

But it did not complete my joy watching this object that I think you're just a fantasy because it will also already !! .. The documentary stated that this object is on the verge of extinction because of the many caught for drug him !!

Let us learn about this amazing object which is known as (Horseshoe Crabs), and which days of the list of animals that cause human extinction in !! might join:

Horseshoe crab is one of the arthropods that live in shallow water and spread on the beaches to mate and lay eggs which is similar to Balakecriaat but it belongs to a separate division known as (Chelicerata).

The horseshoe crab from living fossils which organisms for which there are fossils, but still alive, were found fossils of him dating back to 450 million years ago and there was no noticeable change is happening to this cancer during the 250 last million years, and this picture of a fossil cancer Horseshoe dating back to the Jurassic period, about 150 million years ago.

There are about four types of horseshoe crab, namely:

(Mangrove Horseshoe Crab) and live this kind in Southeast Asia at the coast of Japan and Thailand.

(Atlantic horseshoe crab) this kind exists along the coast of the Atlantic Ocean, especially the eastern coast of North America and the coast of the Gulf of Mexico.

(Tachypleus gigas) and present this kind in Southeast Asia.

(Tachypleus tridentatus) and finally this kind that resides on the coast of East Asia.

The body is made cancer horseshoe of five pairs of legs to eat, swimming and consists of bony cover his body strong, and breathe using gills.

Horseshoe crab feeds on worms, molluscs, crustaceans and small fish, which is searched for in the bottom of the ocean.

The size of females this cancer larger than the males have sizes up to 60 cm and during the mating season, the females laying eggs fertilized in digging sand on the beaches, and may put between 60 thousand to 120 thousand eggs at a time and the eggs hatch within two weeks, but in this period be this eggs and delicious meal for the hungry birds.

In spite of so many generations of this object, however, many of the eggs eaten by birds, others Rights used as bait in America to hunt Iaabeyen, a large part of the generations of this cancer catches fishermen to sell This is because there are some people who eat this object: - /

The other part of the scientists take him to his studies in scientific laboratories for material resistant to bacteria secreted by the body because this object has the gift of God Almighty the possibility of not influenced by wounds and that there are no infections him in case of any injury to him, and this by the foam material produced by tissues which are briefing bacteria at places of wounds for preventing the wound from approaching or entering the body (Glory to God Almighty).