We leave you this Sunday with horseshoe crabs crabbing around off the coast of Maine. Videographer: Mauricio Handler.

Beneath a full moon in Jamaica Bay, horseshoe crab love was in the air. Female crabs skirted along the shore, each with two or three smaller male crabs attached to their backs and sides ...

The horseshoe crab in the amazing YouTube clip captured at Aquaria KLCC in Malaysia appears to have gotten itself in a tricky situation! You normally see them scuttling around the ocean floor ...

The best time to see the ancient wonders that are horseshoe crabs is now, as they return to Delaware Bay beaches for spawning season. Horseshoe crabs first developed 540 million years ago in the ...

Preserving Asian horseshoe crab populations through targeted conservation strategies Date: January 27, 2025 Source: National University of Singapore Summary: Biologists conduct the first ...

This spring, the state Senate and Assembly passed the Horseshoe Crab Protection Act (S.3185A / A.10140), which prohibits the commercial and biomedical use of horseshoe crabs.

It’s early on a hot August morning at the Naples Zoo, yet 60 volunteers packed into a classroom are excited to be learning how to convince a horseshoe crab to submit to a brief but proper welfare ...

The Great Plains Zoo & Aquarium has welcomed the rare hatching of more than 1,000 horseshoe crabs at the Butterfly House & Aquarium, according to a Tuesday morning press release. More: Butterfly ...

Along the Atlantic Coast, one species is supporting ecological and human health — the American horseshoe crab. In Maryland, horseshoe crabs are a common site on the coast and in coastal bays.

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 ...

ALBANY — New York State is coming to the aid of Long Island’s horseshoe crabs, an ancient and alien-looking species that has unique biomedical properties in its bright blue blood that played a ...