Unlike many horseshoe crab fossils discovered in the past, Vaderlimulus dates to the Triassic Period. It’s the first such crab fossil found from that period, with the vast majority dating to an ...

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

Fossil records of horseshoe crabs date back over 450 million years, long before dinosaurs walked the Earth. Astonishingly, ...

But there are questions about how many are still around, how the process affects the animals and some campaigners want this "milking" of horseshoe crabs stopped. These "living fossils" matter ...

Because of their origin 450 million years ago, horseshoe crabs are considered living fossils.

According to curator Kojiro Azumakawa, the horseshoe crab has a bowl-shaped smooth shell, spiny body, crab- or spider-like legs and a long, stout tail. It is a “living fossil” whose appearance ...

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 ...

“These living fossils urgently need Endangered Species Act protection. Horseshoe crabs have saved countless human lives, and now we should return the favor.” Horseshoe crabs are brown, body-armored ...

Horseshoe crabs — brown, body-armored beasts with long, spiked tails — are living fossils that have survived for a half-billion years. Each spring, horseshoe crabs crawl ashore and lay millions of ...

Kendrapada: Four tagged horseshoe crabs have been discovered along various beaches in Balasore district providing the first ...

Researchers in Hong Kong are turning to drones and artificial intelligence (AI) software technology to protect the local population of endangered horseshoe crabs. The study is part of a trial ...