Learn more. Coastal Rivers Conservation Trust is seeking volunteers for a long-standing community science program that collects data on horseshoe crab populations in the Damariscotta River estuary.

Something ancient still walks the world’s shorelines—creatures with armored shells and spiky tails that seem plucked from the ...

Eli Lilly and Company is shifting away from using horseshoe crabs, specifically their blood that’s used to detect dangerous bacterial toxins, to now using a synthetic alternative. “We test ...

Indianapolis Zoo and Eli Lilly are part of a push to move medical industry away from using horseshoe crab blood and towards synthetic genetically engineered alternatives. Horseshoe crab blood has ...

Quang Ninh isn’t just famous for its majestic landscapes but also for its unique local delicacies like sea worms, horseshoe crabs, blood cockles, and sand worms that both intrigue and delight food ...

PHOTO STORY: Photojournalist Denemark also won second place for "Horseshoe Crab Invasion," which documented thousands of horseshoe crabs coming ashore in Titusville for a major spawning event.

Heading to Canada from as far away as Argentina, red knot sandpipers stop to feast on the eggs of horseshoe crabs at Delaware Bay. Doug Gritzmacher The horseshoe crabs come from the deep ...

Have you ever seen an animal with Blue Blood? While this may sound unusual, animals with blue blood do exist. While most vertebrates, including humans, have red blood cells due to hemoglobin, some ...

The Eli Lilly company says it uses the synthetic material, rather than horseshoe crab blood, in about 80% of their testing. Indianapolis Zoo and Eli Lilly are part of a push to move medical industry ...

While New Jersey horseshoe crabs come ashore in May and June each year to lay eggs, they are also sometimes seen on beaches in great numbers in earlier spring – as they have been, mostly deceased, in ...