Eight young horseshoe crabs were spotted at Siangshan Wetlands (香山濕地) during a field study held by the Hsinchu City Government and the Ocean Conservation Administration, the city government said in a news release on Sunday.
It was the biggest number of young horseshoe crabs found in a single day in the area, which has a 1,768-hectare intertidal zone, making it the largest wetland in northern Taiwan. The field study was led by Jay Yang (楊明哲), a horseshoe crab conservation expert.
The horseshoe crab, also known as the king crab, is a living fossil that first appeared on Earth hundreds of millions of