Right now, these prehistoric crabs are getting straight freak-nasty at a shore near you.
Yes, it's springtime, which means horseshoe crabs are once again hosting the longest-running beach party the world has ever known. It's a peculiar mating ritual in which tens of thousands of the arthropods take to beaches -- many of them on the East Coast of the United States -- and leave millions of fertilized eggs.
The Washington Post exposed these sex-crazed crabs, noting that a sharp decline in the Limulus polyphemus population has led environmentalists to follow the horseshoe crab on its epic orgy.
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The ancient ritual involves several males latching onto a female -- who is 40-percent larger than her male counterparts -- until she burrows into the sand and drops her eggs. That's when the males pounce and fertilize. The orgy starts in spring, peaks during full and new moons of late May, and ends around mid-July, according to The Brooklyn Paper.
Read on and watch video: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/11/horseshoe-crab-orgy_n_1509445.html?ref=weird-news
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