The Maryland Department of Natural Resources (DNR) is weighing possible changes to state policy to allow the harvesting of ...

The horseshoe crab, found along Quang Ninh’s coast, is a famous yet elusive delicacy, prized for its versatility in creating up to 8 dishes, but challenging to source due to its rarity. The horseshoe ...

This guest essay reflects the views of Carl Safina, endowed professor for nature and humanity at Stony Brook University. Plenty of people have never seen a horseshoe crab. Of those who have ...

Limulus polyphemus - the Atlantic horseshoe crab, found along the Atlantic coast of the United States and the Southeast Gulf of Mexico. By Breese Greg, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, CC 3.0 ...

Laurent Ballesta's horseshoe crab wins the grand prize - and the WPY Portfolio Award A picture of a mysterious and other-worldly horseshoe crab has earned Laurent Ballesta the title of Wildlife ...

The Ocean Park Conservation Foundation announced the news on Thursday, which is International Horseshoe Crab Day. The announcement said on-site testing had started earlier this month at Ha Pak Nai ...

ANNAPOLIS, Md.— A Maryland Circuit Court judge has sided with the Center for Biological Diversity and denied a motion seeking to dismiss its lawsuit arguing that the Maryland Department of Natural ...

Yet demand for horseshoe crab blood has only climbed through the years as its uses expanded to testing for impurities in medical devices, vaccines and any injectable drugs. More recently ...

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 ...

Since the 1970s, the standard method to check for the presence of endotoxins has been the horseshoe crab blood–derived limulus amebocyte lysate (LAL) test. A synthetic, animal-free alternative known ...

Biomedical companies harvest horseshoe crabs and drain their blue blood, which is used to detect toxins in drugs and medical devices. Horseshoe crab blood harvests have virtually doubled since 2017, ...

To him and other marine fisherfolk along the Odisha coast, the horseshoe crab is worthless, because it is not eaten. Jena doesn’t encounter them that much any more though; their numbers have ...