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blood is so cool

There’s hemoglobin - the stuff in you humans

There’s hemocyanin (blue) - a variant for mollusks and crustaceans

There’s chlorocruorin (green) - leeches and worms

There’s hemerythrin (purple) - certain bristle worms

There’s even an antarctic fish with CLEAR BLOOD because oxygen dissolves readily into the water around them, a sufficient amount for them to sustain their low metabolisms

There’s also terrestrial hemolymph which is the goop in insects and arachnids that secondarily evolved to lack hemocyanin due to size

I just realized this must sound weird coming from my url