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 ...

Meet some of the most ancient-looking visitors to New York City! Horseshoe crabs have been around for more than 300 million years – emerging even earlier than the dinosaurs! They visit the shores of ...

The blood of horseshoe crabs, which are related to scorpions, contains unique components vital for detecting bacterial contaminants in medical applications. Testing employing a component of ...

Kendrapada: Four tagged horseshoe crabs have been discovered along various beaches in Balasore district providing the first ...

In place of white blood cells, they have cells known as amebocytes, which are extremely effective at detecting bacterial ...

The four extant species of horseshoe crabs are imperilled, because of overfishing for use as food, bait, production of biomedical products derived from their blood, and because of habitat loss or ...

Some animals have remained virtually unchanged for millions of years, surviving through countless environmental changes and ...

Gov. Kathy Hochul on Friday vetoed the Horseshoe Crab Protection Act, passed by the State Legislature in June to ban the taking of horseshoe crabs from New York waters for commercial fishing or ...

Horseshoe crabs are harvested for use in bait, but they’re also collected for their blood, which is prized in the pharmaceutical industry for its clotting properties when exposed to bacterial toxins ...

DOVER, Del.— The Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission decided this week to forgo a 2024 bait harvest of female horseshoe crabs in Delaware Bay, where the crabs’ eggs provide a critical food ...

Horseshoe crabs have roamed the planet for over 450 million years, surviving mass extinctions and environmental changes that wiped out many other species. In 2009, horseshoe crabs were enlisted as ...