Susan Linder, a horseshoe crab egg density team leader with the Horseshoe Crab Recovery Coalition examines a crab during an interview with The Associated Press at Reeds Beach in Cape May Court ...

PORTLAND, Maine — The horseshoe crab has been scuttling in the ocean and tidal pools for more than 400 million years, playing a vital role in the East Coast ecosystem along with being a prized ...

The horseshoe crab has been on Earth for 350 million years. ... These are feeding appendages used to place food into the animal’s mouth. Going down the body, ...

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 ...

The eggs aren’t just a proxy for measuring crab populations. They are food for migratory shore birds such as the Rufa red knot, which flies 9,300 miles each year from Argentina’s Tierra del ...

Predating dinosaurs, the horseshoe crab has roamed the earth for 445 million years, surviving five mass extinctions and three ice ages, but overfishing and habitat loss pose the greatest challenge ...

In Asia, the horseshoe crab is used for medical purposes, bait and food. When it comes to the conservation effort, the horseshoe crab does have a bit of an image problem.

Horseshoe crab egg density, the number of eggs per square meter on the beach, in Delaware Bay has declined significantly since the 1980s. Back then 40,000 eggs per square meter was the average.

Horseshoe crab eggs, ... They have no teeth, so they crush their food between their legs before consuming it. They eat worms, clams, algae and other tidbits they can scavenge.

To guard the crab's unique benefits to humans and the food web, biologists want us to watch for these weird creatures, especially the ones making baby crabs.