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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 25 Jul 2000.
Re: ASCII Trilobite

Re: ASCII Trilobite

On Tue, 25 Jul 2000 01:38:24 +0100, Dave Bird <dav...@xemu.demon.co.uk> provoked
the following text:

>>>> I'm looking for an ASCII pic of a Trilobite for my own use..
>>>> Any contributions would be appreciated.
>>>AFAIK there's still some crab species similar to the first one
>>>living today - does anyone know it's name?
>>That's the horseshoe crab. 
>>Interesting piece of useless knowledge: a horseshoe crab has blue blood. This is
>>because its heamoglobin contains copper instead of iron.
> In fact all the shelled and armoured animals have copped based blood,
> and all the backboned animals have iron-based blood.

I never knew that, thanks for expanding my mental database of useless knowledge
:-))
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Date: 2000/07/25
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