EPISODE · Jun 12, 2008 · 14 MIN

Underreported: Horseshoe Crabs

from Underreported from WNYC's The Leonard Lopate Show · host New York Public Radio, WNYC

Horseshoe crabs predate dinosaurs by more than 100 million years. They’ve also saved more than a million human lives thanks to a substance in their blood that the medical industry uses to fight infections! Find out why the horseshoe crab population has been in a downward spiral since the mid-1990s, and what’s being done to save them. William R. Hall is a marine researcher at University of Delaware, which runs a horseshoe crab education website.

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