The Gordon’s Pond Trail connects Cape Henlopen to Rehoboth Beach, offering a scenic route between Delaware’s natural gem and its more developed neighbor. It’s like having a secret passage between two ...

Whether you're here for the beach, the music, the food or the fun, there's no better place to celebrate and create summer ...

Every spring horseshoe crabs come to South Carolina beaches to reproduce. A volunteer initiative with the SCDNR helps researchers better understand the species.

Horseshoe crab on the shore. Image by Andrea Westmoreland from DeLand, United States, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons. Today, only four species of horseshoe crabs remain, representing the last ...

The Atlantic horseshoe crab is perhaps the most studied, growing up to two feet in length and living up to 20 years in the wild. These four species represent living windows into Earth’s distant past, ...

Crabs come in around 5,000 species, of which 4,500 are actual crabs, and 500 are fake crabs. Blue crabs, spider crabs, and snow crabs are a few instances of real crabs.

It has more than 100 species of marine life, including diamondback turtles, southern and cow nose rays, sea horses, pipe fish, lionfish and horseshoe crabs.

Another distinctive aspect of horseshoe crab are their eyes — all ten of them! The two lateral eyes on each side of the body are, by far, the most noticeable and were closely studied for several ...

Thousands of dead horseshoe crabs are washing up on Maryland shores after having their “blue blood” harvested, according to a lawsuit filed by the Center for Biological Diversity.

Horseshoe crabs are brown, body-armored arthropods with 10 eyes and a long, spiked tail. Despite their intimidating appearance, they are completely harmless to humans.