Horseshoe crab ancestors first appeared in the fossil record 450 million years ago. But climate change and harvesting are ...

New Synthetic Horseshoe Crab Blood Could Mean Pharma Won ... it was not until the 1920s that biochemist Florence Seibert discovered that febrile reactions were due to contaminated water in these ...

Protecting endangered shorebirds and waterfowl was a fundamental reason the federal government created the Cape Romain National Wildlife Sanctuary in 1932, so it's encouraging that the federal ...

In the 1990s, horseshoe crab populations reached devastating low levels, because fishermen used them as bait to catch eel, whelk, and conch. Since then, there have been efforts to limit the number of ...