I think I read somewhere that all beetlemoses comics are taking place in the same universe. So here is another horseshoe crab comic of theirs

"Many were increasingly of the opinion that they'd all made a big mistake in coming down from the trees in the first place. And some said that even the trees had been a bad move, and that no one should ever have left the oceans." ― Douglas Adams

(Copied from an online source because I never remember the exact wording.)

One of the Easter eggs of this quote is that when it was uttered in the 1980s BBC TV adaptation, the scene cuts to a man, seen only from the back, disposing of his clothes and possessions and walking naked into the ocean. That man was Douglas Adams.

Fun facts about horseshoe crabs:

• Not crabs, in fact not even close. Chelicerates like the arachnids.
• Have photoreceptors in their "tail" (telson).

Edit: For some taxonomic context, king crabs are closer than shrimp are closer than woodlouse are closer than barnacles are closer than bees are closer than myriapods (centipedes and millipedes) are closer than horseshoe crabs to being crabs.

Horseshoe Crab: Unbothered. Moisturized. Happy. In My Lane. Focused. Flourishing.

Damned blue bloods. Thinking they're better than everybody else.

I've seen a lot of them in person. 10/10 creepy.

In hindsight…

Fake news. Horseshoe crabs have evolved equally as much as every other existing species. The difference is they have a highly effective form for the environments they have survived in. Other forms either diverged or went extinct while this version continues to be very good at survival.

If I had a time machine I’d go back to when the first amphibian crawled on land and throw that fucker back in the ocean.

they aren't frozen in time, they have been evolving, just that their fossils have not changed significantly.

They called him HORSEshoe crab before they even evolved into a horse 🤔