Horseshoe crabs evolved in the toxic brew of their ocean environment. When a crab is wounded, its blood coagulates and forms a barrier to keep out nasty bacteria. Unlike human blood, crab blood reacts ...

An anthropologist has confirmed a skull found in a crab pot off the Washington coast is human, and it is now being sent to the FBI crime lab at Quantico, Va. Grays Harbor Undersheriff Dave Pimentel ...

An ancient aquatic species that's been around for 450 million years is facing extinction as a series of factors work against ...

NAPLES, Florida (WBBH) — Horseshoe crabs have been around for millions of years, but did you know they also save human lives? “Their blood contains a factor which is highly, highly sensitive to ...

Police in Westport say a fisherman found what is believed to be part of a human skull in a crab pot. KXRO reports the crab fisherman pulled up the pot Friday morning about two miles off the coast and ...

In fact, it's happened so often that there's a scientific term for it: carcinization. If you close your eyes and think of a crab, you might picture a round, flat body. Big front claws and multiple ...

Below the peaceful water, they do not know there is a huge threat coming from the giant crab clan. For some reason, it may be radiation, or it may be from the effects of human waste on their mutations ...