The Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission has decided to extend a more than decade-old ban on bait harvesting female horseshoe crabs in the Delaware Bay. “The decision to once again protect ...
Horseshoe crab blood is extremely important for medical use, as it is used as a safety test for vaccines. Hence, it is being eyed by poachers. Odisha is home to a significant population of horseshoe ...
Currently, catching and landing horseshoe crabs is banned on Saturdays ... numbers and would not allow for the harvesting of female crabs. The change to DNR policy was discussed at the Coastal ...
As part of the Marine Biological Laboratory’s Falmouth Forum series, biologist Michael Dawson will give a talk titled “The Horseshoe Crab: Ancient Mariner and Modern Medicine,” on Friday ...
The Kasaoka Horseshoe Crab Museum displays live specimens caught by accident in fishing nets. A film tracing the evolution of horseshoe crabs and other creatures is shown in the museum, with an area ...
The crabs are migrating to the sea so females can release their eggs. After mating, female crabs can produce up to 100,000 eggs each. Millions of red crabs are coming out of their burrows on ...
When a giant asteroid hit Earth around 66 million years ago, it created a massive disaster that wiped out the dinosaurs. But somehow, many mammals survived, and scientists have some ideas why. Unlike ...
Perhaps you remember, from those good ol’ days in high school biology, the phrase the teacher requested that you memorize: “Form begets function.” This truism reflects a universal fact that a strong ...