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.
Related: The Future of Medicine May Lie in the Fur of the Sloth. In order to obtain horseshoe crab blood, around 250,000 live crabs are harvested along the east coast of the U.S. each year.