The ancient migration of horseshoe crabs (Limulus ... Each spawning season, a single female horseshoe crab can lay around 20,000 eggs in the sand. These eggs play a crucial role in the ecosystem ...

One of the reasons for the decline of the ancient species ... Conservationist groups aligned with the nonprofit Horseshoe Crab Recovery Coalition rejoiced Friday when a major scientific ...

Editor and Chair of the Jury, Kathy Moran exclaims, ‘to see a horseshoe crab so vibrantly alive in its natural habitat, in such a hauntingly beautiful way, was astonishing. To understand that what we ...

A coalition of pharmaceutical companies and conservation groups launched the Sustainability Scorecard for Endotoxin Testing ...

What is an Atlantic horseshoe crab? Atlantic horseshoe crabs may appear alien, but their history as earthlings is pretty impressive. They’ve been around for 450 million years, predating the ...

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va.— The Center for Biological Diversity and 22 partner organizations petitioned NOAA Fisheries today to list the American horseshoe crab as an endangered species under the Endangered ...

The deceptively named horseshoe crab is not part of the crab family ... like appearance may give them a futuristic vibe - these ancient crustaceans have been around for around 450 million years.

Besides the innate desire humans feel to protect our connections to the past — in this case, the ancient past ... adopting similar bans on horseshoe crab harvesting in the past 15 months.