There are a lot of questions as to how blood harvesting affects the American horseshoe crab population, but some researchers are dedicated to the cause of protecting such a significant resource.

Indianapolis Zoo and Eli Lilly are part of a push to move medical industry away from using horseshoe crab blood and towards ...

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 ...

A judge in Maryland today sided with the Center for Biological Diversity in a lawsuit arguing that the Maryland Department of ...

The Center for Biological Diversity sued the state's Department of Natural Resources to get records on tens of thousands of ...

A lawsuit filed earlier this year against pharmaceutical giant Charles River Laboratories alleges that the company is contributing to a significant decline in horseshoe crabs ... other US companies ...

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 ...

A U.S. court has ordered the state of Maryland to release data on horseshoe crab deaths in the state in response to a lawsuit ...