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Apparently it is hard to draw a horseshoe crab in a T-shirt (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 days ago by General_Effort@lemmy.world to c/science_memes@mander.xyz

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[-] Cris_Citrus@piefed.zip 17 points 3 days ago

Horseshoe crabs are the best animal, anyone who disagrees is wrong and can fight me

Theyre so cool 🥹

[-] oxideseven@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

No wai. It's Pangos. Pangos are the best! ❤️

Then whale shark. Then HSC! :D

[-] Cris_Citrus@piefed.zip 2 points 1 day ago

Pangolins ARE delightful, I must give you that

[-] Jimbabwe@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago

I wonder if they’re tasty

[-] Cris_Citrus@piefed.zip 14 points 3 days ago

How dare you 😭 /j

They already have to worry about being caught for their medically precious blue blood 🥹

I looked it up and apparently people can and do keep them as pets, but they need a very big tank and are generally wild caught so folks often discourage keeping them

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

they are crabs so yes

[-] SuperPengato@scribe.disroot.org 20 points 3 days ago

They're not crabs! They're not even crustaceans! They're not even mandibulates, which means insects and myriapods are more closely related to crabs than they are! They aren't even antennulata, which means they're further from crustaceans than trilobites were!

What they are is cheliceriforms, like sea spiders and arachnids.

They can be consumed, but not all of them, and there is a risk of poisoning.

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 14 points 3 days ago

if not crab why call crab

[-] Iron_Lynx@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

Perhaps we could make an argument for carcinization applying to naming as well? What if anything we can't place could end up getting named something related to crabs?

"It's 16:59 and some seconds and I need to run in less than a minute! We'll call it a somethingsomething crab! Now I need a beer and I've got a train to catch, see y'all Monday!"

[-] SuperPengato@scribe.disroot.org 9 points 3 days ago

Don't blame me, I call them limules. I'd say something about carcinisation, but tbh I don't think they even look or move enough like crabs for it to apply. Someone just called it that and it stuck I guess.