but coyote pete is going to fill us in. yote is stomping through the tide pools right here and looking for animals. when he comes across an interesting one. >> it is alive. look at that. look at that. wow. >> what? >> it's like out of aliens. >> what a bizarre looking creature. >> isn't it cool? we used to see these things on the jersey shore. i never knew much about them. but coyote fills us in. they're really cool animals. >> they have no stinger. no fangs. no teeth. >> but they sure look intimidating, don't they? >> people think that's venomous. it actually is not. >> it's called a horseshoe crab. >> but it's not related to crabs at all. it's more closely related to spiders and scorpions. >> what? >> huh? >> who knew? and those little things on top of that helmet structure? >> those are compound eyes. they have nine eyes. two here and then five and then on the underside, two simple eyes. >> this thing hasn't changed for a couple of years. >> that is me holding a living fossil. the ancestors of the horseshoe crab have been