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Stories about: horseshoe crabs

Endangered Shorebird Depends on Horseshoe Crabs Experts with the United States Geological Survey (USGS) announce that the conclusions of their latest study support in part the idea that the survival of a population of endangered shorebird species is dependent on the number of horseshoe crabs living inside the same ecosystem. The shorebird species is called red kno... 5 July 2011 10:57 GMT Horseshoe Crab Populations Declining Due to Climate Change Experts at the United States Geological Survey (USGS) announce the results of a new study they conducted on horseshoe crabs, which revealed that these creatures are in constant decline due to climate change. The team reveals that it used genomics and related analysis tools in order to figure out the numbers horseshoe... 31 August 2010 02:56 GMT Fossil Reveals the Origins of Claws A 390 million year-old fossil of a long-extinct animal sheds new light on the evolution of scorpions and horseshoe crabs, and especially on how they developed their frontal claws. The perfectly-preserved specimen is the only one known of its species, and has been named Schinderhannes bartelsi. Investigators from the ... 6 February 2009 04:54 GMT