What is an Atlantic horseshoe crab? Atlantic horseshoe crabs may appear alien, but their history as earthlings is pretty impressive. They’ve been around for 450 million years, predating the ...

13 stunning photos from this year’s best wildlife photographers 13 stunning photos from this year’s best wildlife photographers Horseshoe crab blood is key to making a COVID-19 vaccine—but ...

The subject of concern is the Limulus polyphemus, commonly known as the Atlantic horseshoe crab, whose blue blood is of great benefit to the medical and pharmaceutical industries.

In place of white blood cells, they have cells known as amebocytes, which are extremely effective at detecting bacterial ...

DOVER, Del.— The Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission decided this week to forgo a 2024 bait harvest of female horseshoe crabs in Delaware Bay, where the crabs’ eggs provide a critical food ...

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va.— The Center for Biological Diversity and 22 partner organizations petitioned NOAA Fisheries today to list the American horseshoe crab as an endangered species under the Endangered ...

A small intervention restored a lagoon in Cape Cod National Seashore and brought back horseshoe crabs by the hundreds. All it took was opening the valves. An inlet that is said to have once sheltered ...

Bhubaneswar: A six-year study conducted by 18 scientists from 11 countries, including one from Odisha, has revealed that all three Asian horseshoe crab species are highly vulnerable to future ...