Prime viewing opportunities are expected during evening high tides around June 15 and June 29. Popular observation areas ...

Thousands of horseshoe crabs have begun their annual spawning migration along Maryland’s shores, one of the oldest wildlife ...

Each spring, horseshoe crabs flood Delaware Bay to spawn, feeding migratory shorebirds and supplying medicine with their blue ...

Horseshoe crabs are not endangered or threatened in Massachusetts, but their numbers are at historic lows. To protect the species, state wildlife officials are rolling out new regulations. As of 2024, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. CUMMAQUID — In the tidal flats bordering the beach at Mass Audubon's Long Pasture Wildlife Sanctuary, where the waters of ...

BOSTON (AP) — Wildlife protection advocates are welcoming a decision by the Massachusetts Marine Fisheries Advisory Commission to approve protections for horseshoe crabs during spawning, which is when ...

LOWCOUNTRY, S.C. (WCIV) — Horseshoe crab spawning season has begun in the Lowcountry, according to the South Carolina Aquarium. In an Instagram post, the aquarium said the horseshoe crabs are coming ...

The federal government is shutting down the harvest of a species of marine invertebrate in a national wildlife refuge during the spawning season to try to give the animal a chance to reproduce.

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. The federal government is shutting down the ...