Something ancient still walks the world’s shorelines—creatures with armored shells and spiky tails that seem plucked from the ...

A researcher inspects the interior of a male American horseshoe crab at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Known ...

Horseshoe crabs also have 10 eyes—a pair of compound eyes on the front shell and more photo receptors along their tail. Horseshoe crabs’ bodies are divided into three segments. The head ...

This body of work should be both original and outstanding. Laurent Ballesta (France) goes looking for horseshoe crabs in the protected waters of Pangatalan Island, the Philippines. Laurent used a tiny ...

The deceptively named horseshoe crab is not part of the crab family at ... for them to shed their small exoskeletons and grow larger shells. In October 2023, the photographer Laurent Ballesta ...