Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission has decided to forgo a 2024 bait harvest of female horseshoe crabs in Delaware Bay, ...

Under the light of the summer full moon, College of Southern Maryland students have been wading into the shallows of local ...

An unusual underwater encounter shows a horseshoe crab apparently helping another that has become stuck upside down, ...

As the weather warms each year on Cape Cod, an ancient species older than dinosaurs crawls up just below the sandy shores to spawn. Then in the midst of their mass mating event, the unlucky ones are ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. I visited Ocean City this summer and saw a horseshoe crab on the edge of the surf. People were touching and picking it up. Can ...

A friend's child found the remains of a horseshoe crab that had just died and provided it to me for taxidermy.(Thanks for the ...

Along the Atlantic Coast, one species is supporting ecological and human health — the American horseshoe crab. In Maryland, horseshoe crabs are a common site on the coast and in coastal bays. Harvest ...

Horseshoe crabs used to be everywhere. Millions of years before dinosaurs roamed the planet, each spring, the hard-shelled creatures gathered to mate in massive mounds along the beaches of the ...

If you have ever gotten a vaccine or received an intravenous drug and did not come down with a potentially life-threatening fever, you can thank a horseshoe crab (Limulus polyphemus). How can animals ...

What is an Atlantic horseshoe crab? Atlantic horseshoe crabs may appear alien, but their history as earthlings is pretty impressive. They’ve been around for 450 million years, predating the dinosaurs ...