With copper-blue blood prized by modern medicine and a body plan older than dinosaurs, the horseshoe crab reveals how ancient ...
The humble horseshoe crab, an ancient species crawling seafloors since before the dawn of the dinosaurs, was durable enough ...
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The most extreme crab species ever documented

Crabs are often seen as familiar ocean creatures, but some species are far stranger than most people realize. This video ...
Horseshoe crabs have been around for 400 million years, but without protection, they could vanish from SC coast, ...
Animals have evolved crab-like bodies at least five times throughout history, a process known as carcinization.
The crabs' numbers have been depleted in recent years because of a loss of habitat and their value for testing new medicines.
Horseshoe crabs are also harvested for use as bait by the commercial whelk and eel fisheries. Even though horseshoe crab ...
Will Harlan, a senior scientist at the Center, says since 2000, horseshoe crab populations have crashed by more than 70% ...