On Oct 7, representatives from 15 environmentalist groups gathered in Northport Harbor to rally for the Horseshoe Crab Protection Act (S.4289/A.4997), which would ban the harvesting of horseshoe crabs ...

New York environmental advocates want Gov. Kathy Hochul to sign a bill protecting horseshoe crabs. The legislation would allow the Department of Environmental Conservation to regulate the management ...

An ancient aquatic species that's been around for 450 million years is facing extinction as a series of factors work against ...

I grew up on the east coast with frequent trips to Cape Cod where horseshoe crabs were common on the shore. They are one of the strangest critters ever; they are ancient animals who have been on earth ...

In response to the alarming overharvesting and endangerment of horseshoe crabs on Long Island, conservationist John Turner of Seatuck is launching a groundbreaking fall project to create a lab-based, ...

The horseshoe crab was about to make the same journey his species had made since before the dinosaurs roamed the earth. But as the young male horseshoe crab scuttled through Edisto Beach’s murky water ...

Once there was a superabundance of horseshoe crabs; armadas of females blanketed the beaches of the Delaware Bayshore. Through the 1990s, New Jersey’s horseshoe crab breeding and coinciding red knot ...