Earlier this summer, the IMF lowered its global growth forecast for the current year to 3.3% from its previous projection of 3.5%, while dropping the forecast for gross domestic product growth in the U.S. from 2.8% to 2%.arlier this summer, the IMF lowered its global growth forecast for the current year to 3.3% from its previous projection of 3.5%, while dropping the forecast for gross domestic product growth in the U.S. from 2.8% to 2%.
A female horseshoe crab may lay between 60,000 and 120,000 eggs, laying a few thousand at a time. Most of the eggs are eaten long before being able to hatch.
Even though the horseshoe crab has a hard shell and numerous appendages with claws, it is not really a crab. Horseshoe crabs belong to the phylum, Arthropoda, along with crabs, insects, and other invertebrates with jointed legs, but their closest living relatives are spiders and scorpions.True crabs have two pairs of antennae and a pair of mandibles, or jaws; horseshoe crabs lack these structures.nit Five COAST/Horseshoe Crabs ïProject Oceanography Fall 2001 82 with claws. In adult males, the second pair of claws (pedipalps) has a âboxing-gloveâ appearance and is used to grasp females during spawning. Horseshoe crabs also have four simple eyes on the top of their carapace instead of two as with the true crab.