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Horseshoe

Horseshoe

1. A shoe for horses, consisting of a narrow plate of iron in form somewhat like the letter u, nailed to a horses hoof.

2. Anything shaped like a horsehoe crab.

3. (Science: zoology) The limulus of horsehoe crab.

(Science: medicine) Horsehoe head, a bat of the genus Rhinolophus, having a nasal fold of skin shaped like a horsehoe.


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Why do you keep talking about species

... about 200 modern Orthonectida Straight swim Single layer of ciliated cells surrounding a mass of sex cells about 20 Phoronida Zeus's mistress Horseshoe worms U-shaped gut 20 Placozoa Plate animals 1 Platyhelminthes Flat worms Flat worms about 25,000[10] Porifera Pore bearer Sponges Perforated ...

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by gamila
Mon Jun 29, 2009 5:35 pm
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Why do you keep talking about species
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Blood is always red, never blue.

The horseshoe crab has blue blood! These odd arthropods have copper-containing protein hemocyanin instead of hemoglobin, and it is indeed blue - although when oxygenated. Although this has nothing to do with human blood, it ...

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by biohazard
Tue Apr 22, 2008 1:11 pm
 
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Topic: Blood is always red, never blue.
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Re: What is this?

... expedition as well, some very interesting finds. This creature does look VERY VERY similar to trilobites. I can tell you that it is not a horseshoe crab though, we know this because trilobites have horizontal segments in the dorsal region of their abdomen region, horseshoe crabs do not. ...

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by Darwin420
Sat Apr 05, 2008 12:05 am
 
Forum: Zoology Discussion
Topic: What is this?
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That sure does look like a trilobite, but they went extinct some 400 MYA, so I would think it is some form of horseshoe crab. I would have to agree that there is no way that is a trilobite, a horseshoe crab is definitely the more likely option.

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by Draco
Mon Mar 31, 2008 6:02 pm
 
Forum: Zoology Discussion
Topic: What is this?
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What is this?

That sure does look like a trilobite, but they went extinct some 400 MYA, so I would think it is some form of horseshoe crab.

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by MichaelXY
Sun Mar 30, 2008 7:53 pm
 
Forum: Zoology Discussion
Topic: What is this?
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