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

The best places to see them include Slaughter Beach, DuPont Nature Center, Kitts Hummock and Pickering Beach, but horseshoe ...

Most people assume that the horseshoe crab is closely related to the crabs ... Imagine a time before even the dinosaurs existed; that’s when horseshoe crabs were already thriving in shallow ...

Now, after surviving several mass-extinction events through the ages, including an asteroid impact 66 million years ago that killed off dinosaurs, the lowly horseshoe crab is facing its own demise ...

Celebrate World Ocean Day on June 8 by learning about these ancient arthropods Ashley Goetz The ocean has many unusual inhabitants, but few are as strange and ancient as the horseshoe crab.

"They were here before the dinosaurs," said Glenn Gauvry, president of Ecological Research & Development Group, a Delaware-based nonprofit that advocates for horseshoe crab conservation.

“They were here before the dinosaurs,” said Glenn Gauvry, president of Ecological Research & Development Group, a Delaware-based nonprofit that advocates for horseshoe crab conservation.

and they'll let you know where the crab was originally tagged. (You can get a certificate for participating!) Horseshoe crabs may have outlasted the dinosaurs, but they still face challenges.

As the weather warms each year on Cape Cod, an ancient species older than dinosaurs crawls up just ... among the strictest regulations on horseshoe crab harvesting in the country.

The amazing arthropods lived through the age and extinction of dinosaurs and many ... essential habitat for one of the four living horseshoe crab species: the Atlantic horseshoe crab.