Hundreds of dead horseshoe crabs have washed into a narrow canal behind a bayside community near 94th Street in Ocean City, ...

Horseshoe crabs along New Jersey’s Delaware Bay are showing signs of recovery after 15 years of sharp decline. But conservationists warn that the fragile rebound underscores the need to maintain ...

The stench of hundreds of rotting horseshoe crabs could keep returning to an Ocean City neighborhood year after year — and ...

Horseshoe crabs have roamed Earth's oceans for hundreds of millions of years, and their secrets go far deeper than a prehistoric shell. This free five-day elementary unit uncovers the surprising ...

Horseshoe crabs show up in the fossil record over 445 million years ago. Their blood is valuable in testing vaccines.

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 ...

Every year around this time, tens of thousands of horseshoe crabs visit our shores to spawn. Many die while stranded upside down. How to help ...

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 ...

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — 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 ...

A familiar summertime problem has returned to a canal on 94th Street in Ocean City — and some neighbors say it's worse than ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A primordial sea animal that lives on the tidal mudflats of the East Coast and serves as a linchpin for the production of vital ...