Something ancient still walks the world’s shorelines—creatures with armored shells and spiky tails that seem plucked from the ...

There are a lot of questions as to how blood harvesting affects the American horseshoe crab population, but some researchers are dedicated to the cause of protecting such a significant resource.

Coastal Rivers Conservation Trust is seeking volunteers for a long-standing community science program that collects data on ...

Indianapolis Zoo and Eli Lilly are part of a push to move medical industry away from using horseshoe crab blood and toward ...

What is an Atlantic horseshoe crab? Atlantic horseshoe crabs may appear alien, but their history as earthlings is pretty impressive. They’ve been around for 450 million years, predating the ...

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va.— The Center for Biological Diversity and 22 partner organizations petitioned NOAA Fisheries today to list the American horseshoe crab as an endangered species under the Endangered ...

Heading to Canada from as far away as Argentina, red knot sandpipers stop to feast on the eggs of horseshoe crabs at Delaware Bay. Doug Gritzmacher The horseshoe crabs come from the deep ...

WILMINGTON, Del.— A coalition of pharmaceutical companies and conservation groups launched the Sustainability Scorecard for Endotoxin Testing to accelerate the adoption of synthetic alternatives to ...

This body of work should be both original and outstanding. Laurent Ballesta (France) goes looking for horseshoe crabs in the protected waters of Pangatalan Island, the Philippines. Laurent watched as ...

The New York DEC’s ability to manage crabs, including horseshoe crabs, expired on December 31, 2024. Existing regulations were no longer valid.

Horseshoe crabs are marine arthropods that live primarily in and around shallow ocean waters on soft sandy or muddy bottoms. They occasionally come onto shore to mate. They are commonly used as ...