The Crab Blood Worth $60,000 Per Gallon and the Truth About Spider Blood

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When it comes to spiders, people generally know two facts about them- that you swallow around eight of them per year and that their blood is bright blue. Fortunately, the former is absolutely not true at all, the latter, on the other hand, is mostly correct.

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Sources:

http://www.explorit.org/science/spider.html
http://ednieuw.home.xs4all.nl/Spiders/InfoNed/blood.html
http://www.wisegeek.com/do-all-animals-have-red-blood.htm
http://animals.howstuffworks.com/arachnids/spider1.htm
http://biology.clc.uc.edu/courses/bio105/circulat.htm
http://www.findaspider.org.au/info/spiderblood.htm
http://education-portal.com/academy/lesson/open-circulatory-systems-definition-lesson-quiz.html#lesson
http://www.wisegeek.org/what-is-interstitial-fluid.htm
http://www.rcsb.org/pdb/101/motm.do?momID=41
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/02/the-blood-harvest/284078/
http://www.horseshoecrab.org/med/med.html
http://dub130.mail.live.com/default.aspx?id=64855&owa=1&owasuffix=owa%2f
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limulus_amebocyte_lysate
http://blog.nativefoods.com/nativefoods/2012/02/the-horseshoe-crab-harvest-million-dollar-blue-bloods.html

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