An environmental group has sued the National Marine Fisheries Service over the agency's lack of a decision on whether the ...

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...