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 Atlantic horseshoe crab, the species harvested on the East Coast, ranges from the Gulf of Maine to Florida. The International Union for Conservation of Nature lists the species as being ...

Federal government shuts down horseshoe crab harvesting to give species a chance to reproduce Horseshoe crab eggs are vitally important food for migratory birds. Associated Press.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 blood saves lives. Can we protect these animals from ourselves? Humans rely on the animal’s blood for lab testing, but the full repercussions of the industry are still not understood.

The American Littoral Society educated the public about the world's largest population of spawning horseshoe crabs on the ...