FILE: Rebha Raviraj, a project manager from the Maritime Aquarium in Norwalk, Connecticut said the Horseshoe crab, a 400 million year old species, is facing a variety of threats including ...

It’s early on a hot August morning at the Naples Zoo, yet 60 volunteers packed into a classroom are excited to be learning how to convince a horseshoe crab to submit to a brief but proper welfare ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The best time to see the ancient wonders that are horseshoe crabs is now, as they return to Delaware Bay beaches for spawning ...

At night, on the full moon and the new moon in late May and early June, the sands of East Coast beaches host a dance that is a half-billion years old. Millions of horseshoe crabs, sensing the highest ...

BAY POINT, N.J. — Susan Linder was hunting for buried treasure. Kneeling at low tide, the biologist dug up small shovelfuls of sand, scanning each scoop for tiny jewels. One yielded a cluster of ...