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

An environmental group has sued the National Marine Fisheries Service over the agency's lack of a decision on whether the ...

The humble horseshoe crab, an ancient species crawling seafloors since before the dawn of the dinosaurs, was durable enough ...

Freshwater aeglid crabs, belonging to the single genus Aegla, represent a unique and diverse group endemic to southern South America. These crabs inhabit a variety of freshwater systems—from streams ...

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

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

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

The Center for Biological Diversity filed a lawsuit Monday against the National Marine Fisheries Service for not publishing initial findings on a petition filed February 2024 to protect American ...

Off the coast Okinawa Island in southwestern Japan, researchers equipped with scuba gear and suction pumps set out to investigate the muddy bottom of Kin Bay. Just over 30 feet down, they came upon a ...

A potentially invasive crab species has landed in coastal South Carolina, from Hilton Head, though the Charleston area and up to Myrtle Beach. State regulators are asking the public to report ...

Animals have evolved crab-like bodies at least five times throughout history, a process known as carcinization.