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 ...

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 ...

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

A free workshop will be held at the UF/IFAS Extension Office on January 23 to practice skills for Florida Horseshoe Crab ...

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 ...

Australian researchers found that peptides isolated from the Brazilian tarantula and Japanese horseshoe crab can “kill metastatic melanoma cells” Cara Lynn Shultz is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE.

First come the horseshoe crabs. Hoisting their round, tank-like shells, they trundle out of the Delaware Bay under the first ...

The age of dinosaurs may have ended 65 million years ago, but not all creatures from their era disappeared. Some prehistoric ...

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