Horseshoe crabs are considered “living fossils”, as they have remained relatively unevolved for at least 445 million years. However, the world is changing at an unprecedented rate, leaving this ...

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 ...

Indianapolis Zoo and Eli Lilly are part of a push to move medical industry away from using horseshoe crab blood and towards synthetic genetically engineered alternatives. Horseshoe crab blood has ...

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.

Horseshoe crab blood is highly valuable because it contains a unique substance called Limulus Amebocyte Lysate (LAL), which is used in a test to detect bacterial endotoxins. This test, known as ...

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 ...

(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 ...

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 ...