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

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In this episode of C&EN Uncovered, host Craig Bettenhausen speaks with C&EN assistant editor Laurel Oldach about the use of horseshoe crab blood in pharmaceutical endotoxin testing, the challenges ...

For over a century, the Cambrian arthropod Helmetia expansa remained a mystery. Discovered by paleontologist Charles ...

The Mesozoic Era extinctions formed the world as we know it today. Read about what caused them and which animals survived.

The horseshoe crab is one of the oldest creatures alive today, with a history stretching back more than 450 million years. This ancient species predates the dinosaurs, and it has hardly changed ...

Shrimp look an awful lot like bugs. The exoskeletons, jointed legs and compound eyes of both groups of living things give ...

From a trip to Roger Williams Park Zoo to aquariums, museums and stargazing in Charlestown, here's how to build some memories ...