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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

The trilobite, an extinct marine arthropod vaguely resembling a horseshoe crab, inhabited the primordial seas that covered New England during ... joining the North American land mass in a continental ...

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 ...

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 ...

Kendrapada: Four tagged horseshoe crabs have been discovered along various beaches in Balasore district providing the first concrete evidence of their movement patterns in Indian waters.