Antimicrobial peptides derived from a crab and a spider may provide the pathway ... from the Brazilian tarantula and the Japanese horseshoe crab and found they can kill samples of melanoma cells ...

What is an Atlantic horseshoe crab? Atlantic horseshoe crabs may appear ... Despite their common name, horseshoe crabs are more closely related to spiders and scorpions than to “true crabs ...

According to curator Kojiro Azumakawa, the horseshoe crab has a bowl-shaped smooth shell, spiny body, crab- or spider-like legs and a long, stout tail. It is a “living fossil” whose appearance ...