For 40 years, researchers relied on horseshoe crab blood to catch endotoxins in drugs. Now, synthetic alternatives and ...

The Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission decided to forgo a 2024 bait harvest of female horseshoe crabs in Delaware Bay. Here's all to know.

Horseshoe crab ancestors first appeared in the fossil record 450 million years ago. But climate change and harvesting are ...

The Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission decided to forgo a 2024 bait harvest of female horseshoe crabs in Delaware Bay. Here's all to know.

The Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission decided to forgo a 2024 bait harvest of female horseshoe crabs in Delaware Bay. Here's all to know.

Horseshoe crabs gather on Delaware Bay beaches to spawn from May through early June, with the most seen during new and full moon high tides. The next new moon is May 27. The next full moon is June 11.

Limulus polyphemus - the Atlantic horseshoe crab, found along the Atlantic coast of the United States and the Southeast Gulf of Mexico. By Breese Greg, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, CC 3.0.

Connecticut’s horseshoe crab population has deteriorated since the early 2000s, their stock status sinking from “good” to “neutral” to “poor” in surveys conducted by the Atlantic ...

9. A horseshoe crab’s pointed tail is not for self-defense. Horseshoe crabs are easily jostled by ocean currents and waves — and each other.

The Delaware Bay horseshoe crab population has been increasing over the last two decades, which is an encouraging sign, said John Clark, chair of the Atlantic States horseshoe crab management ...

Along the Atlantic Coast, one species is supporting ecological and human health — the American horseshoe crab. In Maryland, horseshoe crabs are a common site on the coast and in coastal bays.