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FRIDAY, JULY 22, 1900 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE. Small Worlds Around Us By Lynn M. W.tklm Horahoe Crib, Unchanged, Hn Been Around A Long Tim Allied to the spiders, scor pions, niltc mid tha duddy oiikI(iki the liorspslino crnb is clusscd us iin ruclmld. Dy rlKliln they should huvo died out lonit alio. Tho Pulc oxolc Agn li uppimcd to hnvu hud Hi day about 300 million years niio, It win In that dim end dlsliint lima when thuno animals, Including the horsu-hoe-crab, first appeared on the mliily scene. T hat was tome little time boforo the lie of the dlno.iiium, T h e Common horsoshoo crab, or klnu-criib us 11 In oft en called, ban survived un changed throughout nil those con of time. Anlinuli of many kind much atrongcr than the king crnb came upon the earthly name, lived their time and punned; the lint of Hide creature la long. Tho pawing of the huge dinosuur has never beon fully under stood; nerhnps they died from over-speclnllmtlon, Qrew Too Fast The dinosaur probably ate himself to death; he grew tauter than tho food ho need ed; hl very alio became a millstone that drowned him in hli own mudhole. Maybe lie died because he progressed too rapidly. Yet the horseshoe crab, a creature of almoat ob- solute sliiKnutloii, survived and poMibly because h stood still. Theso crub-llko anlmuls hung stubbornly on rung of llio evolutionary bidder, al lowing the other uiilnnil to climb pust and upward, Thne, for tho horseshoe crab, him iitood still for all those millions of ynnrs; those iillvo Uicliiy, and there are many, ore exactly the sumo as llicir ancient ancestors thut lived so long ago. With an ancestry that reaches buck In to Ihe very antiquity of time It Is easy to understand why they have been named "cus serolo crabs" In some parts of their rango. This peculiar shape, of course, Is the rea son fur the common name "horseshoe." The scientist knows this creature as "llm ulus"; ruimed after natural ist named Llmulus. In some areas where the klng-crub Is plentiful they are gathered for hog and chicken feed. In some remote suctions of the world they are servod us human food. In the animal scale-these creatures are plac ed somewhere between the real crabs and the spldors as they po.sscss some of tho char acteristics of each. Tho horseshoe crab breathes air, although he sponds his entire life In water and right to. dL. (V , 9 .aaV'-if I N t , 1 ' 1M ar t t r:Miil aw..-'' - ' ' Mm EXPENSIVE HOME DESTROYED Walter 400 acres were burned over before the fire, llrnuiilielm comforts his wife as the couple one of many In southern California this watch ii fire completely destroy their $55,- week, finally was brought under control 000 home in the Vcrdugo Hills above Sun- late Wednesday. hind, Calif.. Wednesday. Eleven homes and (UPI Telephoto) on the bottom of shallow scus. Due to his sluggish move ments, or an ability of conser ving oxygen, he can remain under water all his life, a rather tricky munner of life, specially when he accomplish es all this with primitive bonkgllls. But very few beings alive on this earth today have a stranger history than these spade-shaped creatures. As crude and prehistoric as they arc, they have outlived all or most of iheir contemporaries and many that came later; creatures from out of the past, animals older than the "hills" themselves. (ReUasad by ihe Register and Tribune Syndicate, 1960) Pantsless Teacher Goes Along With Gag Sharpness, England (UPD Headmaster R. E. Jones smiled happily Thursday when his pupils dc pantsed him and tossed him into the water at ceremonies opening a new swimming pool. 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