The American Horseshoe Crab is about as close as you can get to a creature that shared the Earth with dinosaurs, but the ...

Horseshoe crabs have been around for 400 million years, but without protection, they could vanish from SC coast, ...

An environmental advocacy group is suing the federal government to force regulators to decide if the American horseshoe crab, ...

Will Harlan, a senior scientist at the Center for Biological Diversity, says since 2000, horseshoe crab populations have ...

A conservation group sued President Donald Trump's administration on Monday over its failure to act on protecting American ...

"Meet the Mitten Crab, an invasive species native to East Asia that has found its way into New York waters," New York's Department of Environmental Conservation said Hauke-Christian Dittrich/picture ...

The crabs' numbers have been depleted in recent years because of a loss of habitat and their value for testing new medicines.

Horseshoe crabs are also harvested for use as bait by the commercial whelk and eel fisheries. Even though horseshoe crab ...

A sudden splash pierces the silent ocean depths. Divers' lights pierce the murk, revealing a coelacanth—its lobed fins ...

A species of crab has been found to play an "unheralded role" in the breakdown of microplastic particles, according to ...

For more than 300 years, Italians have fried soft-shell green crabs, called moeche. But the culinary tradition is under ...

The Lesser Caucasus Mountains are home to a diverse mix of flora and fauna. Meet the newest member of this fascinating ecosystem: Psammitis abuliensis. It’s not everyday that a new species is ...