Every spring horseshoe crabs come to South Carolina beaches to reproduce. A volunteer initiative with the SCDNR helps ...

The Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission’s (ASMFC) Horseshoe Crab Management Board has approved a measure that will ...

Catching crabs and harvesting their blood is time-consuming, and the resulting lysate costs $60,000 per gallon. In 2016, a synthetic alternative to crab lysate, recombinant factor C (rFC), was ...

Tybee residents have told WSAV the animal has recently been seen near North Beach, South Campbell Ave., and Crab Shack.

Dietitians say many of these muscle-building proteins may have diabetes benefits.

The ancient horseshoe crab is one of Earth’s most vital yet underestimated animals. Its blue blood, also powered by hemocyanin, is not just biologically fascinating, it’s a lifesaver.

The A-2500 ekranoplan was a marvel of Soviet engineering, designed to carry fighter jets and traverse oceans using ground ...

In the early 2000’s, the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission and the State’s Marine Fish Agency allowed an ...

Getting caught in the rain or sweating through a heatwave is nothing compared to what some animals deal with every day. These ...

Can dancing to K-pop or eating crabs trigger life-threatening allergic reactions? This rare case reveals an unusual and ...

On a different front, conservationists are calling for biomedical companies to stop buying and using an extract from horseshoe crab blood, called lysate, to test for bacterial contamination in ...

BALTIMORE— A new scorecard ranks the top pharmaceutical companies by their transition away from horseshoe crab blood used in drug safety testing. Horseshoe crab blood is used to detect toxins in a ...