Thousands of dead horseshoe crabs are washing up on Maryland shores after having their “blue blood” harvested, according to a lawsuit filed by the Center for Biological Diversity.. The suit ...

Horseshoe crabs sit at Reeds Beach in Cape May Court House, N.J., June 13, 2023. AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File. By PATRICK WHITTLE, Associated Press November 14, 2023 2 minutes to ...

The horseshoe crab bleeding industry is in transition. One biomedical company agreed to more oversight, and a regulatory group is paving the way for drug companies to use animal-free alternatives.

The American Littoral Society educated the public about the world's largest population of spawning horseshoe crabs on the ...

Predating dinosaurs, the horseshoe crab has roamed the earth for 445 million years, surviving five mass extinctions and three ice ages, but overfishing and habitat loss pose the greatest challenge ...

New Synthetic Horseshoe Crab Blood Could Mean Pharma Won’t Bleed the Species Dry The “living fossils” have been vital for testing intravenous drugs, but a few large pharmaceutical companies ...

Horseshoe crabs visiting the shore of Reeds Beach in New Jersey to lay eggs. Under the new proposal, the fishing industry would be allowed to catch a total of about 150,000 female crabs for bait ...

In 2021, the commission proposed restarting the 2023 harvest, saying that the bay’s population of female crabs had more than doubled to about 11 million.

The horseshoe crab bleeding industry is in transition. One biomedical company agreed to more oversight, and a regulatory group is paving the way for drug companies to use animal-free alternatives.

The companies that harvest horseshoe crab blood in the U.S. can be secretive—and the state agencies and groups charged with regulating them often conceal basic data about the harvest from the ...

The harvesting of horseshoe crabs has been shut down by the federal government during the spawning season in an effort to allow the species to reproduce.