Living Fossils
Personal memory by Vernon Kelly
2011 • Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, NY, USA
When I was in high school a teacher I admired told me about horseshoe crabs. I was fascinated to learn that this incredibly old species of animals was still living to this day, and so I went to see them at a local beach where they had come to mate. It didn't take long to find them, and this is a memory I will always cherish.
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