13 stunning photos from this year’s best wildlife photographers 13 stunning photos from this year’s best wildlife photographers Horseshoe crab blood is key to making a COVID-19 vaccine—but ...

Horseshoe crabs molt their distinctive shells about 17 times before reaching maturity at age 10. A synthetic version of their blood has been produced that appears to be on course to eliminate the ...

It is common and is shaped like our horseshoe. It is rarely found in the neighbouring states of Odisha and West Bengal. The animal tends to have blue blood and the crab is also used for medicinal ...

photo by Timothy Fadek This is the fate of hundreds of thousands of horseshoe crabs each year in the United States at the hands of the biomedical industry. The animals’ blood—bright blue because it ...