Researchers turn to cannons to save elusive birds
Wildlife researchers on Cape Cod are tagging some of the elusive shorebirds known as red knots.
Ecology
Sep 20, 2013
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News tagged with horseshoe crab
Into watching horseshoe crabs have sex? Florida needs your help
Arthropod passions will soar along Florida's coastal waters in March and April as we reach peak mating season for horseshoe crabs.
Plants & Animals
Feb 20, 2020
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Adaptations across scales: Scientists learn how the horseshoe crab sees through its cuticle lenses
The primitive compound eyes of a horseshoe crab are one the largest to be found in nature. In contrast to many insects and spiders that build their eyes from glassy proteins, the horseshoe crab uses cuticle, the same material ...
Plants & Animals
Nov 21, 2022
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New porcelain crab species from Colombia named
Despite their names, hermit crabs, king crabs and horseshoe crabs are not true crabs. Neither are porcelain crabs, decapod crab-like crustaceans that live in shallow water throughout the world's oceans. Researchers working ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 7, 2017
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Pterygotid sea scorpions: No longer terror of the ancient seas?
Experiments by a team of researchers in New York and New Jersey have generated evidence that questions the common belief that the pterygotid eurypterids ("sea scorpions") were high-level predators in the Paleozoic oceans.
Plants & Animals
Dec 22, 2010
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Diversification in ancient tadpole shrimps challenges the term 'living fossil'
The term 'living fossil' has a controversial history. For decades, scientists have argued about its usefulness as it appears to suggest that some organisms have stopped evolving. New research has now investigated the origin ...
Archaeology
Apr 2, 2013
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Advocates: Oyster farming may hurt threatened shorebirds
Environmentalists and coastal researchers say New Jersey's efforts to establish commercial oyster farms in shallow coastal waters may be jeopardizing a threatened shorebird.
Ecology
Sep 26, 2015
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Regulators study horseshoe crab survival in medical harvest
Environmental regulators studying the harvesting of horseshoe crabs that are drained of some of their blood for biomedical use say they need to get a firmer handle on how many die as part of the process.
Ecology
Aug 16, 2016
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Living fossils: We mapped a half-billion years of horseshoe crabs to save them from blood harvests
If you ventured to the New York seaside in summer, you might see a large dome-shaped animal with a spiky tail, slowly moving towards the water. These are horseshoe crabs—the animals time forgot.
Plants & Animals
Jul 9, 2020
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Biomedical bleeding affects horseshoe crab behavior
New research from Plymouth State University and the University of New Hampshire indicates that collecting and bleeding horseshoe crabs for biomedical purposes causes short-term changes in their behavior and physiology that ...
Plants & Animals
Feb 24, 2014
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