When water temperatures rise to 60 degrees and level off after the last cold snaps of winter, the coastline welcomes ...

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

where thousands of horseshoe crabs crawl onto the beaches in May and June. During spawning, several males gather around one female who lays her eggs in clusters of up to 5,000 apiece—ultimately ...

They are ecosystems unto themselves. That’s not all they support. The many eggs that horseshoe crabs lay on the beach — which ...

Each spring along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts, horseshoe crabs lay their eggs in massive beach spawning events. Nearly twice as old as the dinosaurs, horseshoe crabs have been crawling ashore for ...

where they double their weight by feeding on nutrient-rich horseshoe crab eggs. The continued use of crabs to produce a test for which there is an equivalent, if not superior, alternative, is ...

Their eggs, for example, serve as a major food source for shorebirds, some of which have evolved to time their migrations to coincide with peak horseshoe crab spawning activity. In addition to ...

Environmentalists warn of the threat to endangered horseshoe crabs in Balasore due to destructive fishing practices and lack ...

This deprives red knots the opportunity to feed on the nutrient-rich eggs, which are critical to the birds ... issued a new state permit allowing them to bleed crabs on Cape Cod. “Massachusetts ...