While most crabs are prized for their meat, the horseshoe crabs in Tom Bowden’s fishing nets are wanted for their blood. Every horseshoe crab Bowden catches in his trawl nets goes to a plain building ...

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Researchers have discovered a new primitive crab species Cycloprosopon dobrogea in eastern Romania. Previously unexamined, these ancient crabs from the Prosopidae family existed more than 150 million ...

July 9 -- One hundred million years before dinosaurs pounded upon the Earth, the humble horseshoe crab scuttled along its shores. Soon the blood of this primitive creature could be used to detect ...

Inside of the primitive-looking Horseshoe crab is a powder-blue blood that contains LAL, an element worth about $15,000 per quart Inside of Horseshoe crabs, the primitive-looking arthropods that can ...

In a cave just south of Lisbon, archeological deposits conceal a Paleolithic dinner menu. As well as stone tools and charcoal, the site of Gruta de Figueira Brava contains rich deposits of shells and ...

KENT, Ohio, Oct. 18 (UPI) -- U.S. and Romanian scientists have discovered a new primitive crab species from the Prosopidae family that lived 150-million years ago. The new species, Cycloprosopon ...

Boletín de la Sociedad Geológica Mexicana, Vol. 65, No. 2, Número especial Mesozoic and Cenozoic Crustacea: updating their systematics (2013), pp. 249-254 (6 pages) AbstractA new homolodromioid, ...

Researchers from Kent State University and the University of Bucharest, Romania, have discovered a new primitive crab species Cycloprosopon dobrogea in eastern Romania. Previously unexamined, these ...