Horseshoe crab populations have crashed and their habitat is disappearing. Advocates say Endangered Species Act protections are urgently needed.(Courtesy Gregory Breese/USFWS) When you walk down the ...

WILMINGTON, Del.— A coalition of pharmaceutical companies and conservation groups launched the Sustainability Scorecard for Endotoxin Testing to accelerate the adoption of synthetic alternatives to ...

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Along the Atlantic Coast, one species is supporting ecological and human health — the American horseshoe crab. In Maryland, horseshoe crabs are a common site on the coast and in coastal bays. Harvest ...

ALBANY — New York State is coming to the aid of Long Island’s horseshoe crabs, an ancient and alien-looking species that has unique biomedical properties in its bright blue blood that played a role in ...

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 petition to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Fisheries to extend endangered species protection to horseshoe crabs is gaining traction, with a bevy of organizations now backing the ...

PORTLAND, Maine -- The horseshoe crab has been scuttling in the ocean and tidal pools for more than 400 million years, playing a vital role in the East Coast ecosystem along with being a prized item ...

When the spring high tides strike, tens of thousands of horseshoe crabs descend on the Delaware Bay to spawn. (Steph Yin/WHYY) From Philly and the Pa. suburbs to South Jersey and Delaware, what would ...

Our television screens have been showing heart-wrenching images of abused dogs and cats, and with those images have come pleas for financial help to try to save those and other animals, many of them ...