The humble horseshoe crab, an ancient species crawling seafloors since before the dawn of the dinosaurs, was durable enough ...

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

With copper-blue blood prized by modern medicine and a body plan older than dinosaurs, the horseshoe crab reveals how ancient ...

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

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

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

An environmental advocacy group is suing the federal government to force regulators to decide if 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 ...

Environmentalists are suing the federal government over what they say is a failure to protect the horseshoe crab, a ...

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 ...