Professor Loren E. Babcock examines the key processes of fossilization in paleontology, highlighting the critical role of ...

Based on these details, its closest evolutionary relatives, and its river habitat, the study’s authors believe Tanyka likely resembled a three-foot-long salamander sporting a lengthier snout. But at ...

Prehistoric animals are often pictured as distant fossils, yet a surprising number of species still walk, swim, and crawl ...

The American horseshoe crab (Limulus polyphemus) is among the oldest surviving species on our planet, having remained virtually unchanged for over 450 million years. Often called “living fossils,” ...

NOAA Fisheries has determined that horseshoe crabs do not warrant listing under the Endangered Species Act (ESA), finding that the petitions to do so lacked the necessary evidence that the species is ...

A lumbering creature, older than the dinosaurs, has long been the source of a medical miracle. Scientists rely on the bright-blue blood of horseshoe crabs to test vaccines and other medical products ...

It’s claimed the Burren and Cliffs of Moher Geopark is punching well above its weight following the discovery of a 300 million year-old fossil. The organic remains of the Horseshoe Crab were located ...

When it comes to iconic animals that call the 63 national parks home, bison, black bears, and bald eagles probably come to mind first. But Cape Cod National Seashore has been hard at work restoring an ...

Sometimes, creatures are so strange-looking that they compel us to do a double-take. This Instagram video shows active, trilobite-like creatures grabbing earthworms in the water, riding them, and ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — If you have had a vaccine in the last few years… of had a shot for cancer treatment... or have even take a weight loss medicine, you can thank a horseshoe crab. Horseshoe crabs, ...

Horseshoe crab populations will be getting more protections in the future following Gov. Kathy Hochul’s (D) signing of the Horseshoe Crab Protection Act. The legislation will take effect starting in ...

AlUla is a vast desert in Saudi Arabia that has millions of years of history embedded in its sands. And the Royal Commission for AlUla has announced the documentation and publication of a rare fossil ...