The humble horseshoe crab, an ancient species crawling seafloors since before the dawn of the dinosaurs, was durable enough to survive the mass extinctions of eons past. But now, hundreds of millions ...

The ancient species has been around over 450 million years — longer than the dinosaurs — but face significant risks from ...

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A lawsuit has been filed after the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration declined to list horseshoe crabs as ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — If you have had a vaccine in the last few years… of had a shot for cancer treatment... or have even take a weight loss medicine, you can thank a horseshoe crab. Horseshoe crabs, ...

ALBANY, N.Y.— Gov. Kathy Hochul has signed the Horseshoe Crab Protection Act, which will phase out commercial harvests of horseshoe crabs from New York waters over a three-year transition period.