A small intervention restored a lagoon in Cape Cod National Seashore and brought back horseshoe crabs by the hundreds.

According to curator Kojiro Azumakawa, the horseshoe crab has a bowl-shaped smooth shell, spiny body, crab- or spider-like legs and a long, stout tail. It is a “living fossil” whose appearance ...

Horseshoe crabs also have 10 eyes—a pair of compound eyes on the front shell and more photo receptors along their tail. Horseshoe crabs’ bodies are divided into three segments. The head ...

Gov. Kathy Hochul has been presented with a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to save one of our planet’s greatest unsung heroes ...

A coalition of conservation groups are trying to pressure pharmaceutical companies worldwide to stop using horseshoe crab ...

A coalition of pharmaceutical companies and conservation groups launched the Sustainability Scorecard for Endotoxin Testing ...

The longevity of horseshoe crabs is astonishing. They have been around for 450 million years, predating dinosaurs by some 200 million years, and have survived multiple mass extinction events.

This body of work should be both original and outstanding. Laurent Ballesta (France) goes looking for horseshoe crabs in the protected waters of Pangatalan Island, the Philippines. Laurent used a tiny ...

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 ...