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Thu May 1, 2025, 08:39 AM

May 2025

https://www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts/marine-animals/which-animal-has-saved-most-human-lives

In the 1950s, scientists isolated from its bright-blue blood a clotting agent, coagulogen, that binds to fungi and endotoxins.

This led to a simple, reliable method for detecting impurities in medical equipment and pharmaceutical drugs.

Oxygenated blood is harvested from the pericardium of wild-caught crabs, which are then returned to the sea.

The product is used to test drugs and medical instruments, saving pretty much anyone who has ever received any medical attention (since the 1950s).

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Which animal has saved the most human lives? (In the last 70+ years) [View all] underpants May 2025 OP

ANSWER underpants May 2025 #1

Bats lapfog_1 May 2025 #2

Good point but not the answer here underpants May 2025 #6

I remember seeing a video about this several years ago EYESORE 9001 May 2025 #11

Maybe, but probably not to the extent that urban legend has it. sl8 May 2025 #10

Fascinating! I was kind of thinking of it in the opposite way - saving lives by Tadpole Raisin May 2025 #8

I thought it was Lassie, but hats off to the scientists and to the bats. surfered May 2025 #3

What about Flipper? Omnipresent May 2025 #5

I was thinking of... 2naSalit May 2025 #4

Face eating leopards...... magicarpet May 2025 #7

Bees are animals, and help feed us jgo May 2025 #9

My first guess was dogs then mice - medical/science tests underpants May 2025 #13

Not bears. Ocelot II May 2025 #12

😳 underpants May 2025 #14

Lab mice. Itchinjim May 2025 #15

That and dogs were my first guess. underpants May 2025 #16

Horseshoe crabs Ritabert May 2025 #17

Thanks for the interesting thread, underpants! EuterpeThelo May 2025 #18

Dogs horses and mice were the three I thought of underpants May 2025 #19

Cats jmowreader May 2025 #20