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

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

“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.

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

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

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.

In hindsight…

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.