NEW YORK— Environmentalists are outraged over Gov. Kathy Hochul's recent decision to veto the Horseshoe Crab Protection Act, which prohibits the taking of horseshoe crabs from New York waters.

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 ...

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 Center for Biological Diversity today sued the Maryland Department of Natural Resources under the state’s Public Information Act for failing to release information detailing exactly how thousands ...

WILMINGTON, Del.— A coalition of pharmaceutical companies and conservation groups launched the Sustainability Scorecard for Endotoxin Testing to accelerate the adoption of synthetic alternatives to ...

The deceptively named horseshoe crab is not part of the crab family at ... and which can deliver a painful sting. Another of its organisms, the uppermost polyp, is a gas-filled bladder which ...