A judge in Maryland today sided with the Center for Biological Diversity in a lawsuit arguing that the Maryland Department of ...

Each spring along the Atlantic coast, horseshoe crabs lay their eggs in massive beach spawning events. Nearly twice as old as the dinosaurs, horseshoe crabs have been crawling ashore for more than 450 ...

However, new research is observing that horseshoe crabs are nesting in the salt marsh too, piling their eggs into pluff mud where the eggs are seemingly safer from predators. Dr. Daniel Sasson is ...

A lawsuit filed earlier this year against pharmaceutical giant Charles River Laboratories alleges that the company is contributing to a significant decline in horseshoe crabs (listed as ... to feed on ...

where they double their weight by feeding on nutrient-rich horseshoe crab eggs. The continued use of crabs to produce a test for which there is an equivalent, if not superior, alternative, is ...

A U.S. court has ordered the state of Maryland to release data on horseshoe crab deaths in the state in response to a lawsuit ...