What is an Atlantic horseshoe crab? Atlantic horseshoe crabs may appear alien, but their history as earthlings is pretty impressive. They’ve been around for 450 million years, predating the ...

Horseshoe crabs are often referred to as the "living fossils" of our planet—the four known species, including three in Asia ...

There are a lot of questions as to how blood harvesting affects the American horseshoe crab population, but some researchers are dedicated to the cause of protecting such a significant resource.

No, it's not science fiction, just plain old science. We're talking about the horseshoe crab. For decades we've needed them, and their blood, to help us discover human medicines. They're being ...

The city-run Kasaoka Horseshoe Crab Museum is housed in a building modeled after the brackish water arthropod. According to curator Kojiro Azumakawa, the horseshoe crab has a bowl-shaped smooth ...

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va.— The Center for Biological Diversity and 22 partner organizations petitioned NOAA Fisheries today to list the American horseshoe crab as an endangered species under the Endangered ...

Laurent watched as a tri-spine horseshoe crab moved slowly over the mud, searching for food. He focused on the horseshoe crab’s golden, protective carapace and the trio of juvenile golden trevallies ...

But the commission still upheld an intrinsically flawed computer model that increases horseshoe crab harvests and allows female horseshoe crab harvests in future years. “I applaud the commission for ...

Biologists from the National University of Singapore conduct the first comprehensive population study of all three Asian horseshoe crab species, mapping their population distribution, evolutionary ...