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“Horseshoe crabs have saved countless human lives, and now New Yorkers are returning the favor,” said Will Harlan, a senior ...
A petition to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Fisheries to extend endangered species protection to horseshoe crabs is gaining traction, with a bevy of organizations now backing the ...
A species of crab has been found to play an "unheralded role" in the breakdown of microplastic particles, according to ...
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Fiddler crabs in Colombian mangroves swallow microplastics, concentrate them, and break them into smaller fragments during ...
Each May, hundreds of thousands of horseshoe crabs climb onto beaches along the eastern coast of the United States. An invertebrate’s “Love Island,” males compete to procreate with the largest females ...
University of Oregon biology professor Alan Shanks created a way to predict the size of Oregon's Dungeness crab catch by counting baby crabs coming to shore four years prior.
Most terrestrial plants and animals left the ocean a single time in their evolutionary history to live ashore. But crabs have seemingly scuttled out of the sea more than a dozen times, with at least ...
Get into the festive holiday spirit with a critter that goes all out when decking its halls out: the graceful decorator crab.