A group of horseshoe crabs copulate in shallow water at Plumb Beach in Queens.
Horseshoe crabs have been copulating like this for hundreds of millions of years. (Scott Lynch/Hell Gate)

Behold the Wild, Ancient Orgy Just Outside the Belt Parkway


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