In a rare and touching moment, a horseshoe crab comes to the aid of its stranded friend. Watch as this ancient creature ...

Starting in 2024, horseshoe crabs can no longer be harvested for bait or biomedical uses during spring spawning season in Massachusetts.

The longevity of horseshoe crabs is astonishing. They have been around for 450 million years, predating dinosaurs by some 200 million years, and have survived multiple mass extinction events. At ...

Blue blood from horseshoe crabs is needed for medicine, but a declining bird relies on crabs to eat Horseshoe crabs spawn at Reeds Beach in Cape May Court House, N.J., Tuesday, June 13, 2023.

Horseshoe crabs are now spawning along South Carolina beaches largely free from harvesting efforts. Heed SC DNR researchers' calls for help with counting them.

Local News Harvest of horseshoe crabs, used for medicine and bait, to be limited to protect rare bird Shutting down the female harvest will help the red knot, which relies on crab eggs to refuel ...

Horseshoe crabs visiting the shore of Reeds Beach in New Jersey to lay eggs. Under the new proposal, the fishing industry would be allowed to catch a total of about 150,000 female crabs for bait ...

A fisheries regulator on Thursday unexpectedly extended a ban on harvesting female horseshoe crabs from the Delaware Bay to help protect a vital food source for the red knot, a threatened ...

The horseshoe crab bleeding industry is in transition. One biomedical company agreed to more oversight, and a regulatory group is paving the way for drug companies to use animal-free alternatives.

I’d never be able to look at a horseshoe crab without seeing a face-hugger. Not that I see a lot of horseshoe crabs anyway, and I think the times I have seen them, I’ve mostly seen parts washed up on ...