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 ...

Gov. Kathy Hochul on Friday vetoed legislation that would have banned the harvest of horseshoe crabs as bait or for biomedical purposes in a move applauded by Long Island fishermen and criticized ...

Visitors to JR Kasaoka Station in Kasaoka, Okayama Prefecture, are greeted by a large billboard standing in front that reads: “Welcome to Kasaoka, town of horseshoe crabs.” The city of Kasaoka ...

The subject of concern is the Limulus polyphemus, commonly known as the Atlantic horseshoe crab, whose blue blood is of great benefit to the medical and pharmaceutical industries. The blood of ...

Horseshoe crabs are marine arthropods that live primarily in and around shallow ocean waters on soft sandy or muddy bottoms. They occasionally come onto shore to mate. They are commonly used as ...