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horseshoe crabs · Limulus polyphemus · united states
bled for their blue blood
650,000
a year
0.021
a second
1,780
a day
died of it
100,000
a year
3.17e-3
a second
274
a day
method ASMFC 2023 biomedical bleeding counts; mortality from Krisfalusi-Gannon et al. 2018.
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