It’s a breathtaking wildlife bacchanal that only happens here, and some pretty major forces (climate change, Big Pharma) are ...

Then in the midst of their mass mating event, the unlucky ones are plucked up by fishermen and pharmaceutical companies alike: Horseshoe crabs as good for bait as they are for testing new vaccines ...

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 ...

13 stunning photos from this year’s best wildlife photographers 13 stunning photos from this year’s best wildlife photographers Horseshoe crab blood is key to making a COVID-19 vaccine—but ...

Howling winds. Water rising higher and higher up the shoreline. It doesn't sound romantic but to thousands of horseshoe crabs, it was exactly that. "This is a magical place," said Laurilee ...

GRAND STRAND, S.C. (WPDE) — Right now is the time you’re most likely to see horseshoe crabs spawning on our beaches, but as a local park ranger and a marine scientist explain, it’s rarer ...

BOSTON (AP) — Wildlife protection advocates are welcoming a decision by the Massachusetts Marine Fisheries Advisory Commission to approve protections for horseshoe crabs during spawning ...

Howling winds. Water rising higher and higher up the shoreline. It doesn't sound romantic but to thousands of horseshoe crabs, it was exactly that. "This is a magical place," said Laurilee Thompson, a ...

For the first time in two years, a major horseshoe crab spawning event took place on Titusville's Gator Creek Road Beach, an important site in Florida ...