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

From May to August, during the horseshoe crab's mating season, along Maryland's eastern shoreline visitors can see these creatures make their way to shore during low tide.

As horseshoe crab populations decline along the Atlantic coast, the ripple effects threaten to destabilize entire ecosystems and compromise vital medical resources that millions of humans depend upon.

The ocean is a wild habitat where any keen beachgoer could spy a myriad of marine life that comes covered in shells or swims along.

Cangrejo herradura. Imagen de Openverse. Horseshoe crabs (Limulidae) represent one of Earth’s oldest surviving lineages, having existed in their current form since before the dinosaurs. Despite their ...

In response to the alarming overharvesting and endangerment of horseshoe crabs on Long Island, conservationist John Turner of Seatuck is launching a groundbreaking fall project to create a lab-based, ...

The best time to see the ancient wonders that are horseshoe crabs is now, as they return to Delaware Bay beaches for spawning season. Horseshoe crabs first developed 540 million years ago in the ...

The Atlantic horseshoe crab is the only horseshoe crab species that lives outside Indo-Pacific waters. More horseshoe crabs are killed by the bait-fishing industry than any other cause, aside from ...

Today, the shallows of the Delaware and Chesapeake bays are essential habitat for one of the four living horseshoe crab species: the Atlantic horseshoe crab. When and where to see horseshoe crabs ...