Horseshoe Crabs

If you think you have too big of a family, then you clearly haven’t met the horseshoe crab, the females produce about 90,000 eggs. Why so many you ask? Well out of those 90,000 eggs, the mom horseshoe crab can only expect 10 to survive.

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