Horseshoe crabs may appear passive, but their underside is equipped with multiple jointed legs designed to grip, push, and manipulate their environment. When handled, these limbs can latch onto ...

As the weather warms each year on Cape Cod, an ancient species older than dinosaurs crawls up just below the sandy shores to spawn. Then in the midst of their mass mating event, the unlucky ones are ...

A wildlife advocate displays the underside of a horseshoe crab at Pickering Beach in Dover, Delaware, in 2023. (Matt Rourke/Associated Press) An environmental advocacy group is suing the federal ...

PORTLAND, Maine — A primordial sea animal that lives on the tidal mudflats of the East Coast, including southern New Jersey, and serves as a linchpin for the production of vital medicines stands to ...