Undergraduate students at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore help build an artificial beach platform for spawning horseshoe crabs in the 94th Street canal in Ocean City in July. The Center for ...

A Mazon Creek fossil shows a horseshoe crab riddled with pits, likely from microbes or parasites, revealing a ...

CUMMAQUID — In the tidal flats bordering the beach at Mass Audubon's Long Pasture Wildlife Sanctuary, where the waters of Barnstable Harbor ebb and flow through the Great Marshes behind the Sandy Neck ...

A small group of volunteers gathered at a Delaware Bay beach in Cape May County on a recent Sunday afternoon for a search and rescue mission. Made up of children and adults from the Cape May Lutheran ...

If there was ever a competition for the “perfect species,” the humble horseshoe crab likely would be a top contender. Its design is so flawless that it has remained essentially unchanged for about 445 ...

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Loss of habitat, overharvesting and a degrading environment have contributed to the persistent "severe decline" of horseshoe crabs in and around Long Island Sound over more than two decades, according ...

The highest levels of South Carolina’s governmental leadership could still allow some of the state’s last protected areas to be accessed by fishermen harvesting horseshoe crabs for a multinational ...

The number of horseshoe crabs spotted during the high spawning season at beaches from Brooklyn to Montauk this year reached the lowest level in the 20 years the survey has been taken, according to ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Horseshoe Crab Rescue! It's breeding time for the horseshoe crabs, which means they will come to the beach to lay and fertilize eggs. Horseshoe crabs have ...

Pharmeceutical companies could soon have easier access to synthetic alternatives to horseshoe crab blood, a key ingredient used to test vaccines and medical devices for contamination. The U.S.

The Center for Biological Diversity filed suit Wednesday against the Maryland Department of Natural Resources over what they call "thousands" of horseshoe crab deaths. The suit revolves around issues ...