The humble horseshoe crab, an ancient species crawling seafloors since before the dawn of the dinosaurs, was durable enough ...

With copper-blue blood prized by modern medicine and a body plan older than dinosaurs, the horseshoe crab reveals how ancient ...

The American Horseshoe Crab is about as close as you can get to a creature that shared the Earth with dinosaurs, but the ...

Horseshoe crabs have been around for 400 million years, but without protection, they could vanish from SC coast, ...

A conservation group sued President Donald Trump's administration on Monday over its failure to act on protecting American ...

The crabs' numbers have been depleted in recent years because of a loss of habitat and their value for testing new medicines.

New York State will phase out the catch of horseshoe crabs in its waters for bait and biomedical use over the next four years ...

An environmental advocacy group is suing the federal government to force regulators to decide if the American horseshoe crab, ...

Conservation groups have pressured the industry to switch to synthetic alternatives to reduce horseshoe crab bleeding; in 2024, the Center for Biological Diversity (CBD), the Horseshoe Crab Recovery ...

Environmentalists petitioned in 2024 for the Fish and Wildlife Service to protect the American horseshoe crab.

Will Harlan, a senior scientist at the Center for Biological Diversity, says since 2000, horseshoe crab populations have ...