The medical use of horseshoe crabs highlights the dilemma between human safety, environmental sustainability, and scientific ...

An enzyme in the blue blood has been key to testing vaccines since the 1980s, raising concerns for the crabs’ population. But ...

The species population is plummeting. How can the governor see these animals only as a resource to be exploited?

The Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Council (ASMFC) has voted to continue a ban on female horseshoe crab bait harvesting in ...

PORTLAND, Maine — The horseshoe crab has been scuttling in the ocean and tidal pools for more than 400 million years, playing a vital role in the East Coast ecosystem along with being a prized item ...

The horseshoe crab (Limulus polyphemus) is often described as a "living fossil," a species that has endured for over 450 million years. It outlasted the mass extinctions and dramatic shifts in Earth's ...

Predating the dinosaurs and surviving more than 450 million years, the Atlantic horseshoe crab is now facing steep population decline in Long Island Sound — largely due to human activity. New research ...

For the Amant art center in Brooklyn, the artist Pierre Huyghe takes inspiration from a Superfund site for a new aquarium commission. Pierre Huyghe with his installation at the Amant arts center, ...

NEW YORK — French artist Pierre Huyghe was in East Williamsburg, Brooklyn, recently, peering into a plastic bucket of water containing small horseshoe crabs. Little did they know, the scuttling crabs ...

Often called “blue-green algae,” cyanobacteria produced Earth’s first oxygen, transforming the atmosphere and paving the way for all complex life forms. Surviving for over 450 million years, horseshoe ...

The Huawei Mate 80 series is expected to launch soon in China. Although the company hasn’t provided a launch date, the phones were recently certified for sale in the country. Real-world images of the ...