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

A researcher inspects the interior of a male American horseshoe crab at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Known ...

A lawsuit filed earlier this year against pharmaceutical giant Charles River Laboratories alleges that the company is contributing to a significant decline in horseshoe crabs (listed as “vulnerable” ...

They are rare outside of North America's Atlantic Coast, although there are other horseshoe crab species in Asia. The creatures predate the dinosaurs and, as part of a group called chelicerates ...

Researchers from the National University of Singapore examined the genomic dataset they generated to propose tailored conservation strategies for each of the three Asian horseshoe crab species ...

Editor and Chair of the Jury, Kathy Moran exclaims, ‘to see a horseshoe crab so vibrantly alive in its natural habitat, in such a hauntingly beautiful way, was astonishing. To understand that what we ...

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

“These companies recognize that synthetics are a far more secure source for medical safety tests than the blood of a dwindling and critically imperiled species.” The Center for Biological Diversity ...

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 Existing regulations were no longer valid.