The horseshoe crab’s carapace hides 12 appendages. One pair, called the chelicerae, is used to push food, such as small invertebrates or algae, into its mouth. The other five pairs are used for ...

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 “vulnerable” ...

photo by Timothy Fadek This is the fate of hundreds of thousands of horseshoe crabs each year in the United States at the hands of the biomedical industry. The animals’ blood—bright blue because it ...

The Center for Biological Diversity today sued the Maryland Department of Natural Resources under the state’s Public Information Act for failing to release information detailing exactly how thousands ...