Horseshoe crabs along New Jersey’s Delaware Bay are showing signs of recovery after 15 years of sharp decline. But conservationists warn that the fragile rebound underscores the need to maintain ...

Hundreds of dead horseshoe crabs have washed into a narrow canal behind a bayside community near 94th Street in Ocean City, ...

Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission has decided to forgo a 2024 bait harvest of female horseshoe crabs in Delaware Bay, following a vociferous comment period that provoked opposition According ...

Horseshoe crabs show up in the fossil record over 445 million years ago. Their blood is valuable in testing vaccines.

The stench of hundreds of rotting horseshoe crabs could keep returning to an Ocean City neighborhood year after year — and ...

PORTLAND, Maine — The horseshoe crab has been scuttling in the ocean and tidal pools for more than 400 million years, playing a vital role in the East Coast ecosystem along with being a prized item ...

Horseshoe crabs are not endangered or threatened in Massachusetts, but their numbers are at historic lows. To protect the species, state wildlife officials are rolling out new regulations. As of 2024, ...

Every year around this time, tens of thousands of horseshoe crabs visit our shores to spawn. Many die while stranded upside down. How to help ...

On an average summer weekday, a few hundred thousand people come to Ocean City for the beaches, the Boardwalk and a break from everyday life. On Thursday, near 94th Street, the scene looked more like ...

A familiar summertime problem has returned to a canal on 94th Street in Ocean City — and some neighbors say it's worse than ...