{"id":780798,"date":"2026-09-24T06:56:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T06:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/780798\/"},"modified":"2026-09-24T06:56:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T06:56:08","slug":"like-bulldozers-in-a-demolition-derby-these-chaotic-baby-horseshoe-crabs-giving-each-other-piggybacks-are-too-cute-for-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/780798\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Like bulldozers in a demolition derby.\u201d These chaotic baby horseshoe crabs giving each other piggybacks are too cute for words"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many people have the same fun fact about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverwildlife.com\/animal-facts\/marine-animals\/horseshoe-crab-largest-aggregation\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">horseshoe crabs<\/a>: these ancient animals have vivid\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverwildlife.com\/animal-facts\/marine-animals\/horseshoe-crab-blue-blood\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">blue blood<\/a>\u00a0that is used to check that vaccines are safe and may have saved millions of lives. But what you might not know is that baby horseshoe crabs are surprisingly adorable.<\/p>\n<p>Nipam Patel, director at the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/marine-biological-laboratory\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Marine Biological Laboratory<\/a>, recently shared a video on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/posts\/nipam-patel-726090148_horseshoe-crabs-on-cape-cod-nice-piece-ugcPost-7495915479362940928-R5iY\/?utm_source=social_share_send&amp;utm_medium=android_app&amp;rcm=ACoAAATlLdgBE0rfqlEZ8KWcEJN_xWinagOhtX8&amp;utm_campaign=share_via\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">LinkedIn<\/a>\u00a0that shows just how cute these little beans can be.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In the video, teeny horseshoe crab embryos can be seen spinning around inside transparent egg casings and wriggling their legs as if they\u2019re trying to go Zorbing.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Horseshoe crab embryos and juveniles. Credit: Filmed by BioQuest Studies at the Marine Biological Laboratory<\/p>\n<p>The juveniles look \u201cmore like bulldozers in a demolition derby,\u201d says Patel.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The babies trundle along the sand, ramming into each other, flipping over and even seemingly giving each other piggybacks.<\/p>\n<p>You wouldn\u2019t think these cute but chaotic critters have\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverwildlife.com\/animal-facts\/marine-animals\/which-animal-has-saved-most-human-lives\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">saved more lives<\/a>\u00a0than any other species on the planet.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>More wildlife stories from around the world<\/p>\n<p>Top image: Filmed by BioQuest Studies at the Marine Biological Laboratory<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Many people have the same fun fact about horseshoe crabs: these ancient animals have vivid\u00a0blue blood\u00a0that is used&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":780799,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-780798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=780798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780798\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/780799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=780798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=780798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=780798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}