For 40 years, researchers relied on horseshoe crab blood to catch endotoxins in drugs. Now, synthetic alternatives and ...

Horseshoe crab populations in Rhode Island have not rebounded in 25 years despite restoration efforts. The crabs are ...

The horseshoe crabs have been harvested for use as bait and medicine from Florida to Maine over the years, though the largest harvests are in Maryland, Delaware, Massachusetts and Virginia.

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — The Veterinary Research Institute has developed a new testing reagent that can replace horseshoe crab ...

That, in turn, could imperil the Atlantic coastal ecosystem, where horseshoe crabs emerge each spring to lay thousands of eggs on beaches. The eggs are a key source of food along the Atlantic ...

Leading scientists also have denounced the commission’s computer model, which recommends harvesting 175,000 female horseshoe crabs and 500,000 male horseshoe crabs for bait annually.

Horseshoe crabs, prized by the biomedical industry for their blood, to get new protections in Massachusetts The controversial regulation won final approval from a group of fishing industry ...

Marine experts reveal the impact the ongoing Jersey Shore beach replenishment projects have on the environment and wildlife.

But horseshoe crabs aren’t so abundant these days, and neither are red knots. In the 1990s, horseshoe crabs were overharvested as bait, leading to dramatic drops in crab and red knot populations.

Horseshoe crabs gather on Delaware Bay beaches to spawn from May through early June, with the most seen during new and full moon high tides. The next new moon is May 27.

The number of locations with “non-detected” horseshoe crabs or signs of spawning was 101 this year. In the past, that figure has been as low as 16 beaches at which no crabs were detected in 2016.