“Horseshoe crabs have saved countless human lives, and now New Yorkers are returning the favor,” said Will Harlan, a senior ...

CUMMAQUID — In the tidal flats bordering the beach at Mass Audubon's Long Pasture Wildlife Sanctuary, where the waters of Barnstable Harbor ebb and flow through the Great Marshes behind the Sandy Neck ...

A small intervention restored a lagoon in Cape Cod National Seashore and brought back horseshoe crabs by the hundreds. All it took was opening the valves. An inlet that is said to have once sheltered ...

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 ...

A judge has thrown out a case that would have transferred control of horseshoe crab harvesting in Cape Romain National Wildlife Refuge from the federal government to South Carolina. The ancient ...

Horseshoe crabs are often referred to as the "living fossils" of our planet -- the four known species, including three in Asia and one in North America, remain nearly identical to their ancient ...

ANNAPOLIS, Md.— The Center for Biological Diversity today sued the Maryland Department of Natural Resources under the state’s Public Information Act for failing to release information detailing ...

ANNAPOLIS, Md.— A judge in Maryland today sided with the Center for Biological Diversity in a lawsuit arguing that the Maryland Department of Natural Resources must release its data on horseshoe crab ...

The horseshoe crab was about to make the same journey his species had made since before the dinosaurs roamed the earth. But as the young male horseshoe crab scuttled through Edisto Beach’s murky water ...

ANNAPOLIS, Md.— A Maryland Circuit Court judge has sided with the Center for Biological Diversity and denied a motion seeking to dismiss its lawsuit arguing that the Maryland Department of Natural ...

The photo shows the moult of a young tri-spine horseshoe crab – an endangered species – found on the beach at Beihai, China. The genomic data gathered by researchers from the National University of ...