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Mercival@lemm.ee 7 months agoHorseshoe crabs are not crusteceans, they are early chelicerates.
They have an open circulatory system, where the blood (heamolymph) freely spills out of the arteries into surrounding tissues, so a small clot probably wouldn’t cause issues. Think of it like a cyst, sometimes if an infection can’t be removed by the immune system, your body will just enclose it in a capsule, so it can’t spread.
peopleproblems@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Ahhh that makes sense. That’s a pretty cool defense system