Environmental advocates have launched a full-court press to get Gov. Kathy Hochul to sign a bill that would ban the harvesting of horseshoe crabs in New York. The Horseshoe Crab Protection Act, passed ...

For nearly 60 years, drug manufacturers have depended on a protein found in horseshoe crab blood cells to detect toxins in injectable drugs, vaccines, and medical equipment. Annually, an average of ...

Today, policy change goes into effect that allows companies to stop using horseshoe crab blood in the safety testing of new products. The United States Pharmacopeia, a quality standards group that ...

Who’d have thought a horseshoe crab could make the difference between life and death? As it turns out, the blue blood from these crabs contains limulus amebocyte lysate (LAL), a liquid extract of ...

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 ...

Throughout the world, there are creatures that haven't evolved for millions of years, and these eight living fossils ...

Horseshoe crabs are one of the living species that have existed for a period of ... making the platypus one of the most peculiar creatures of nature. Sea turtles have been swimming in oceans for over ...

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A westbound Penn Central freight rounds Horseshoe Curve west of Altoona, Pa., on May 30, 1969, on Track 4. David Ingles photo Mention the name, “horseshoe curve,” and your mind will immediately think ...