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Uploaded by on Oct 7, 2008

This video was taken at the 2008 Virginia State Fair. It shows a horseshoe crab shedding it's shell. Video provided by the Virginia Marine Resources Commission.

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  • i wonder if they have eyes...functional eyes...

  • @ogami72 Where'd you hear that? Both real crabs and spiders are arthropods. I've never heard anywhere that they're closer to spiders than crabs. 

  • @ogami72 Crabs, spiders, and horseshoe crabs are all arthropods. The horseshoe crab is no more like a spider than it is like a crab. They're all distantly related. ;)

  • At first I thought this said "Melting Horseshoe Crab"

  • That is so cool

  • @CONKER17

    it takes like 6 hours for it to fully harden

  • its not a real crab, horseshoe crabs are more like spiders than crabs

  • wow didnt know they did that, i thought they grew with there shell, wonder how long till there new one gets hard

  • Amazing, all creatures who have an exoskeleton have to molt, in order to grow. :)

  • great footage!

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