I have existed well before the dinosaurs.
Some of my fossils are 360 million years old.
I have six pair of walking legs to enable my trips.
I can be found in Delaware's waters and on Long Island's beaches and Cape Cod Bay.
I have been known to swim down a long coast.
My cousin is a water scorpion.
Darth Vader's helmet is nothing compared to mine.
I have a rudder to enable me to flip over.
I can swim the backstroke better than Johnny Weissmuller.
I can go without eating for a year.
I have been ground into dust and used as fertilizer.
My blood can make human blood coagulate.
My blood is used to test the purity of medicines.
My shell can be used to make absorbable sutures.
And in 1967, a scientist won a Nobel Prize with his research based on the study of my two eyes.
