horseshoe crabs

Vision was refined in horseshoe crabs , among the first to leave the sea .

Wave action and the digging of nearby horseshoe crabs disturb many of the egg clusters, bringing them closer to the surface.

There are many places along the Delaware Bay and the New Jersey shore to see the rising tide of horseshoe crabs and their avian attendants.

Each spring, millions of horseshoe crabs migrate from the waters of the continental shelf to the shallower waters of Delaware Bay to spawn.

Horseshoe crabs gather at dusk to mate along the shore of the Delaware Bay in Cape May, New Jersey.

Taiwanese experts started breeding horseshoe crabs because their blood detects deadly bacteria.

Walking on the beach near Lazy Point one night under a full moon, he comes across horseshoe crabs laying their eggs.

During the 1990s, commercial fishing for horseshoe crabs increased dramatically.

the fate brings lovers together large extinct scorpion-like arthropod considered related to horseshoe crabs.

The states of New Jersey and Delaware went even further: in 2006, they declared a two year moratorium on the harvest of all horseshoe crabs.

Horseshoe crabs were once ground up by the millions for fertilizer.

A peptide from horseshoe crabs has shown promise in treating cancer.

However, the habits of horseshoe crabs are unknown.

As a consequence, the overall harvest of horseshoe crabs dropped by 62 percent between 1998 and 2003.

Extraction, Purification and Preliminary Activity Assay of Limulus Anti-lipopolysaccharide Factor from Chinese Horseshoe Crabs

The Distribution and Habit of Horseshoe Crabs