The company will pay an independent monitor to oversee its compliance with the new rules, and fishers must share their harvest locations. Red knots and other shore birds feast on horseshoe crab ...

Thousands of horseshoe crabs (Limulus polyphemus) are arriving on Maryland’s shores for their annual spawning, a migration ...

What is an Atlantic horseshoe crab? Atlantic horseshoe crabs may appear ... Spawning season comes at different times of year depending on location, but the largest lovefest happens at Delaware ...

[Note: This story has been updated to reflect the current location of the world's largest horseshoe crab in Hillsboro, Ohio.] Summer is a great time for a scavenger hunt. Are you ready for an Ohio ...

“They were here before the dinosaurs,” said Glenn Gauvry, president of Ecological Research & Development Group, a Delaware-based nonprofit that advocates for horseshoe crab conservation.

An Atlantic horseshoe crab attempts to flip over on Pickering beach, a national horseshoe crab sanctuary near Little Creek, Delaware. Delaware Bay — For such a resilient species, the horseshoe ...

The federal government designated one of the migratory shorebird species that depends on horseshoe crab eggs, the red knot, as threatened. About 94% of red knots have disappeared over the past 40 ...

The state's horseshoe crab population has declined for several reasons, according to Mark Faherty, science coordinator for Mass Audubon's Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary. For decades they were ...

Mass Audubon's science coordinator Mark Faherty examines a horseshoe crab in Pleasant Bay, where he has conducted research on them for years. John Tlumacki/The Boston Globe via Getty Images If you ...

WILMINGTON, Del.— A coalition of pharmaceutical companies and conservation groups launched the Sustainability Scorecard for Endotoxin Testing to accelerate the adoption of synthetic alternatives to ...

When our blood mixes with oxygen, it turns red, but horseshoe crab blood turns blue, which is key to its value in the medical field. “The copper has these special coagulating properties ...