With copper-blue blood prized by modern medicine and a body plan older than dinosaurs, the horseshoe crab reveals how ancient ...

As New York phases out horseshoe crabs, researchers and fishermen explore alternative baits to maintain the whelk fishing ...

The humble horseshoe crab, an ancient species crawling seafloors since before the dawn of the dinosaurs, was durable enough ...

The lawsuit claims that if the United States protects horseshoe crabs, more biomedical companies would make a faster switch ...

The American Horseshoe Crab is about as close as you can get to a creature that shared the Earth with dinosaurs, but the ...

Horseshoe crabs are also harvested for use as bait by the commercial whelk and eel fisheries. Even though horseshoe crab ...

If there was ever a competition for the “perfect species,” the humble horseshoe crab likely would be a top contender. Its design is so flawless that it has remained essentially unchanged for about 445 ...

An environmental advocacy group is suing the federal government to force regulators to decide if the American horseshoe crab, ...

The Center for Biological Diversity filed a lawsuit Monday against the National Marine Fisheries Service for not publishing initial findings on a petition filed February 2024 to protect American ...

Horseshoe crabs have survived 300 million years with little change. Their blue blood protects humans from bacterial ...

Horseshoe crabs have been around for 400 million years, but without protection, they could vanish from SC coast, ...