Something ancient still walks the world’s shorelines—creatures with armored shells and spiky tails that seem plucked from the ...

Indianapolis Zoo and Eli Lilly are part of a push to move medical industry away from using horseshoe crab blood and toward ...

Learn more. Coastal Rivers Conservation Trust is seeking volunteers for a long-standing community science program that collects data on horseshoe crab populations in the Damariscotta River estuary.

Heading to Canada from as far away as Argentina, red knot sandpipers stop to feast on the eggs of horseshoe crabs at Delaware Bay. Doug Gritzmacher The horseshoe crabs come from the deep ...

No, it’s not a mythical beast from a fantasy novel; it’s the horseshoe crab. This ancient crab has blue blood that plays a crucial role in vaccine development and pharmaceutical quality control. But ...

The molting specimens show the new exoskeleton closer to the edge of the head, suggesting the animal exited from the front of the body—similar to horseshoe crabs, which use an anterior exit ...

Horseshoe crab blood has been used in medical testing for at least the last five decades. But environmental groups worry that bleeding the animals, which can kill some of them, can negatively ...

(WJAR) — Massachusetts is looking for volunteers to count spawning horseshoe crabs. The Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries is conducting its yearly Horseshoe Crab Spawning Beach Survey ...

The Eli Lilly company says it uses the synthetic material, rather than horseshoe crab blood, in about 80% of their testing. Indianapolis Zoo and Eli Lilly are part of a push to move medical industry ...

While New Jersey horseshoe crabs come ashore in May and June each year to lay eggs, they are also sometimes seen on beaches in great numbers in earlier spring – as they have been, mostly deceased, in ...