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It took me multiple takes to parse the garden-path sentence that is the headline, but I'm glad it caught my attention. Otherwise I might not have learnt that th
by Mordisquitos 2y ago
It took me multiple takes to parse the garden-path sentence that is the headline, but I'm glad it caught my attention. Otherwise I might not have learnt that there is a species of horseshoe crab that inhabits the North American East coast. For some reason I always assumed they were only in the Indian and Pacific Oceans.
- lbotos 2y agoYep! Growing up in the American Northeast they are a prominent education module because it's an easy field trip :D
- base698 2y agoI've caught them in bays of the Gulf of Mexico. They must be everywhere.
- fbdrgvv 2y ago[dead]
- yyggvbb 2y agoWhy what wrong with the title? Seems clear to me, just try reading out loud.
- NobodyNada 2y agoIt took me a couple tries to parse as well. At first I thought "counting" was a verb, leading to the impression that a horseshoe crab had been taught to count and was now counting alongside New York's citizen scientists. I figured perhaps it had something to do with prior research on crab computing: https://phys.org/news/2012-04-scientists-crab-powered.html https://phys.org/news/2012-04-scientists-crab-powered.html
- pvaldes 2y ago"Horseshoe crab census" would had been the obvious solution available
- InCityDreams 2y agoHorseshoe crab-counting...the hyphen makes a [UK English only?] difference. I found it hard to read - I thought they may have crowd-sourced some telescope buffs.