Yet demand for horseshoe crab blood has only climbed through the ... "The pharmaceutical industry is inviting major risks to ...

Horseshoe crabs are often referred to as the "living fossils" of our planet—the four known species, including three in Asia and one in North America, remain nearly identical to their ancient relatives ...

What is an Atlantic horseshoe crab? Atlantic horseshoe crabs may appear alien, but their history as earthlings is pretty impressive. They’ve been around for 450 million years, predating the ...

Since the 1970s, the standard method to check for the presence of endotoxins has been the horseshoe crab blood–derived limulus amebocyte ... “As it is now, the entire supply chain for endotoxin ...

But the commission still upheld an intrinsically flawed computer model that increases horseshoe crab harvests and allows female horseshoe crab harvests in future years. “I applaud the commission for ...

The research, which used genetic analyses to identify how different species of horseshoe crab populations have changed over time, also looked into how the different species coped with ...

But the commission also approved a deeply flawed model that will allow increased horseshoe crab harvests — including female horseshoe crabs — in future years. The Center for Biological Diversity ...