Parasitic, egg-eating worms might sound like the stuff of nightmares, but they're simply a fact of life for blue crabs in the ...

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

Unusual animals from the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) come to Highfield Hall in “Outlandish Animals Science Series: Curious Critters from the MBL” on Wednesday, July 16.

Beneath a full moon in Jamaica Bay, horseshoe crab love was in the air. Female crabs skirted along the shore, each with two or three smaller male crabs attached to their backs and sides ...

The horseshoe crab in the amazing YouTube clip captured at Aquaria KLCC in Malaysia appears to have gotten itself in a tricky situation! You normally see them scuttling around the ocean floor, but ...

Often referred to as a living fossil, the American horseshoe crab, Limulus polyphemus, is one of the most-studied invertebrate animals in the world. It has served as a model in Nobel Prize ...

A study from the University of Gothenburg researchers finds that crabs feel pain, calling for urgent reforms in welfare laws to protect sentient decapods.

Why should you care about this primitive-looking species? Besides the innate desire humans feel to protect our connections to the past — in this case, the ancient past — horseshoe crabs today ...

Horseshoe crab citizen science programs have also taken root along the Atlantic coast, engaging volunteers in crucial data collection efforts.

Horseshoe crab hatchings, unfortunately, rarely reach adulthood with about a 0.01% chance due to natural predators. Even if wild horseshoe crabs surpass all odds and fully mature, their population ...