{"id":151991,"date":"2019-07-15T08:55:16","date_gmt":"2019-07-15T12:55:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=151991"},"modified":"2019-07-12T15:00:49","modified_gmt":"2019-07-12T19:00:49","slug":"horseshoe-crabs-fortunate-ones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2019\/07\/horseshoe-crabs-fortunate-ones\/","title":{"rendered":"Horseshoe Crabs \u2013 The Fortunate Ones?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fl-module fl-module-heading fl-node-5d0159e600701\" data-node=\"5d0159e600701\">\n<div class=\"fl-module-content fl-node-content\">\n<p><span class=\"sans\">\u201cWhat is that? \u2014 it looks like a prehistoric Roomba,\u201d<\/span>\u00a0my friend said.<\/p>\n<p>We were sitting on a seawall, our feet dangling in the water. \u201cThat\u201d was weaving its way through the sea grass beneath our toes. Roundish and brown, about a foot and a half across, with a long, sharp tail, it was a horseshoe crab, patrolling the tidal realm for worms and shrimp and bits of detritus that it would promptly hoover up, eating and cleaning the seafloor as it went.<\/p>\n<p>Horseshoe crabs are ubiquitous along the coast of Connecticut and the rest of the eastern U.S., but most people who live elsewhere, like my friend, have never heard of them. Which is odd, because most of us owe our lives to their blood.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full story at <a href=\"https:\/\/magazine.uconn.edu\/2019\/06\/05\/the-fortunate-ones\/\">magazine.uconn.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The horseshoe crab has persisted, unchanged, for hundreds of millions of years. But now, its survival is threatened by the harvesting of its prized baby-blue blood. A team at UConn seeks to map its DNA and save it from extinction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":151994,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2226,2076,2225],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[1899],"class_list":["post-151991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-clas","category-research","category-uconn-storrs"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-22 11:12:09","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/79"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151991"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":151997,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151991\/revisions\/151997"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/151994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151991"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=151991"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=151991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}