Several locals have reported "unusual amounts of dead horseshoe crabs" washing up on Massachusetts beaches in recent days. However, officials say the spectacle is no cause for concern, as they're just ...
Horseshoe crabs have been around for 400 million years, but without protection, they could vanish from SC coast, ...
In response to worried reports about “dead horseshoe crabs washing up” on some Massachusetts beaches, the state’s division of Marine Fisheries is assuring people that all is well. “It’s OK, the ...
What might look like a massacre of horseshoe crabs lining Massachusetts beaches recently isn’t as gruesome as it seems, state officials say. After concerned residents in Falmouth, Weymouth, and Nahant ...
Predating dinosaurs, the horseshoe crab has roamed the earth for 445 million years, surviving five mass extinctions and three ice ages, but overfishing and habitat loss pose the greatest challenge yet ...
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 ...
In Delaware Bay, migratory shorebirds dig for eggs beside the shell of a horseshoe crab. Jan van de Kam Griendtsveen Provided Dozens of critical habitat areas for threatened shorebirds will be ...
The horseshoe crab was about to make the same journey his species had made since before the dinosaurs roamed the earth. But as the young male horseshoe crab scuttled through Edisto Beach’s murky water ...