A certain group of animals have evolved crab-like features due to a process called carcinization that occurs throughout millions of years. But that does not mean you will be seeing a giraffe ...

They’re also one of the world’s largest arthropods, animals with no backbone, external skeletons, and multiple-jointed appendages. In this crab’s case, those appendages are its 10 legs.

A recent paper provides an updated perspective on the evolutionary history of chelicerates—a diverse and ecologically ...

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. Each spring along the Atlantic ...

Dungeness crabs part of the animal group called arthropods, making them distantly related to spiders. Arthopods have exoskeletons, hard shells that protect the animals from the enironment or ...

Horseshoe crabs have saved countless human lives, and now we should return the favor.” Horseshoe crabs are brown, body-armored arthropods with 10 eyes and a long, spiked tail. Despite their ...

Importantly, this region has sustained the survival of these ancient arthropods for millennia and could continue to act as a refuge for Asian horseshoe crabs amid accelerating anthropogenic ...

The city-run Kasaoka Horseshoe Crab Museum is housed in a building modeled after the brackish water arthropod. According to curator Kojiro Azumakawa, the horseshoe crab has a bowl-shaped smooth ...