Last month, CBC Radio Canada program “The Current” interviewed Conserve Wildlife Foundation Executive Director David Wheeler for a feature on the irreplaceable role of New Jersey’s horseshoe crabs in the push to vaccinate the population as the coronavirus surges. As host Matt Galloway noted, “One of the effects of this scientific rush will be felt not by us, but by an animal often called a living fossil.”
He explained, “Over the years, (horseshoe) crab numbers have been dropping, in part because of a unique trait in their blood, which means that it is used in medical development, including the…
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