Unlike many horseshoe crab fossils discovered in the past, Vaderlimulus dates to the Triassic Period. It’s the first such crab fossil found from that period, with the vast majority dating to an ...

Scientists have traced the evolutionary origin of humans' outer ears to the gills of ancient fish through a series of ...

Fossil records of horseshoe crabs date back over 450 million years, long before dinosaurs walked the Earth. Astonishingly, ...

According to curator Kojiro Azumakawa, the horseshoe crab has a bowl-shaped smooth shell, spiny body, crab- or spider-like legs and a long, stout tail. It is a “living fossil” whose appearance ...

But there are questions about how many are still around, how the process affects the animals and some campaigners want this "milking" of horseshoe crabs stopped. These "living fossils" matter ...

The trilobite, an extinct marine arthropod vaguely resembling a horseshoe crab, inhabited the primordial seas that ... in a continental collision 400 million years ago. Studying the fossils of ...

“These living fossils urgently need Endangered Species Act protection. Horseshoe crabs have saved countless human lives, and now we should return the favor.” Horseshoe crabs are brown, body-armored ...

A small intervention restored a lagoon in Cape Cod National Seashore and brought back horseshoe crabs by the hundreds. All it took was opening the valves. An inlet that is said to have once sheltered ...

Additionally, horseshoe crabs have a reproductive strategy that includes spawning in large numbers, which increases the chances of survival of offspring despite environmental fluctuations.

Horseshoe crabs — brown, body-armored beasts with long, spiked tails — are living fossils that have survived for a half-billion years. Each spring, horseshoe crabs crawl ashore and lay millions of ...