On a cloudy Friday morning, a group of volunteers huddled on the shore of the Padilla Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve ...

Microscopic claw hairs help hermit crabs sense threats and make quick decisions, revealing a link between anatomy and ...

Thousands of green crabs have already been trapped in southern Southeast Alaska, and experts want the public to be on the ...

Readers of The Post and Courier submitted photos showcasing land shells and sea shells, and a winner and two honorable ...

This month, you can watch thousands of horseshoe crabs spawning while shorebirds feast on these South Jersey beaches.

Have you ever been to The Butterfly Pavilion in central Westminster? Housed at the intersection of W. 104th Ave and ...

We leave you this Sunday with horseshoe crabs crabbing around off the coast of Maine. Videographer: Mauricio Handler.

Horseshoe crabs, the blue-blooded burrowers in the genus Xiphosura, first appeared in the fossil record about 450 million years ago. Around that same time, arachnids crawled into existence.

But the horseshoe crab issue — preserving the four species of those crabs, whose existence scientists believe dates back 450 million years to the Triassic era — is complicated on a number of ...

Australian researchers found that peptides isolated from the Brazilian tarantula and Japanese horseshoe crab can “kill metastatic melanoma cells” Cara Lynn Shultz is a writer-reporter at ...

Embark on a fascinating exploration into the world of creatures equipped with more than just two eyes. Delve into how ig ...