According to curator Kojiro Azumakawa, the horseshoe crab has a bowl-shaped smooth shell, spiny body, crab- or spider-like legs and a long, stout tail. It is a “living fossil” whose appearance ...

In place of white blood cells, they have cells known as amebocytes, which are extremely effective at detecting bacterial ...

Fossil records of horseshoe crabs date back over 450 million years, long before dinosaurs walked the Earth. Astonishingly, ...

Because of their origin 450 million years ago, horseshoe crabs are considered living fossils.

But there are questions about how many are still around, how the process affects the animals and some campaigners want this "milking" of horseshoe crabs stopped. These "living fossils" matter ...

“These living fossils urgently need Endangered Species Act protection. Horseshoe crabs have saved countless human lives, and now we should return the favor.” Horseshoe crabs are brown, body-armored ...

A small intervention restored a lagoon in Cape Cod National Seashore and brought back horseshoe crabs by the hundreds. All it took was opening the valves. An inlet that is said to have once sheltered ...

Additionally, horseshoe crabs have a reproductive strategy that includes spawning in large numbers, which increases the chances of survival of offspring despite environmental fluctuations.

University of Oxford associate prof Luke Parry called the fossils "spectacularly preserved ... related to arachnids such as scorpions and horseshoe crabs, was found by a research team lead ...

Kendrapada: Four tagged horseshoe crabs have been discovered along various beaches in Balasore district providing the first ...