With copper-blue blood prized by modern medicine and a body plan older than dinosaurs, the horseshoe crab reveals how ancient biology still underpins human survival.
Horseshoe crabs have survived 300 million years with little change. Their blue blood protects humans from bacterial ...
Blue blood may look alien, but it’s one of evolution’s most elegant solutions to life in extreme environments. Here’s how ...
A conservation group sued President Donald Trump's administration on Monday over its failure to act on protecting American horseshoe crabs, which are increasingly threatened by the harvesting of their ...
The humble horseshoe crab, an ancient species crawling seafloors since before the dawn of the dinosaurs, was durable enough to survive the mass extinctions of eons past. But now, hundreds of millions ...
MR. MORSE is one of the band of New England naturalists who have lately been making themselves known to us through that excellent periodical the American Naturalist, and who have shown themselves ...
State Assembly member Deborah Glick, who represents Tribeca in Albany and plans to retire later this year, succeeded in ...
The crabs' numbers have been depleted in recent years because of a loss of habitat and their value for testing new medicines.