This animal has lived here millions of years. How a CT-based group wants to save it from extinction.

A Connecticut-based animal advocacy organization has petitioned the federal government to classify an animal that lives in a Long Island Sound as an endangered species. “The goal is to create an effective and uniform method to protect these (the Atlantic horseshoe crab) species from exploitation and to protect them from extinction,” said Jennifer Best, the director of Friends of Animals ...

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