The American Horseshoe Crab is about as close as you can get to a creature that shared the Earth with dinosaurs, but the ...

Horseshoe crabs have been around for 400 million years, but without protection, they could vanish from SC coast, ...

The American Horseshoe Crab is about as close as you can get to a creature that shared the Earth with dinosaurs, but the ...

An environmental advocacy group is suing the federal government to force regulators to decide if the American horseshoe crab, ...

Will Harlan, a senior scientist at the Center for Biological Diversity, says since 2000, horseshoe crab populations have ...

A conservation group sued President Donald Trump's administration on Monday over its failure to act on protecting American ...

The Center for Biological Diversity sued the National Marine Fisheries Service for failing to decide on whether to protect ...

Environmentalists petitioned in 2024 for the Fish and Wildlife Service to protect the American horseshoe crab.

New York State will phase out the catch of horseshoe crabs in its waters for bait and biomedical use over the next four years ...

The Center for Biological Diversity filed a lawsuit Monday against the National Marine Fisheries Service for not publishing initial findings on a petition filed February 2024 to protect American ...

The crabs' numbers have been depleted in recent years because of a loss of habitat and their value for testing new medicines.

Horseshoe crabs are also harvested for use as bait by the commercial whelk and eel fisheries. Even though horseshoe crab ...