Digital dissection shows that two horseshoe crab appendages -- the pushing leg and the male pedipalp -- each have one more muscle than had been thought, according to a study published February 14, ...

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The horseshoe crab (Limulus polyphemus) is often described as a "living fossil," a species that has endured for over 450 million years. It outlasted the mass extinctions and dramatic shifts in Earth's ...

Each summer, horseshoe crabs (Limulus polyphemus) along the Atlantic shore crawl onto beaches to mate and lay eggs — making now a good time for marine scientists like John Tanacredi to monitor ...

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I was swimming in the river that winds through my salt marsh on one of those recent blisteringly hot summer afternoons. The tide was coming in, carrying a strange bobbing object that floated right at ...

LIMULUS POLYPHEMUS.—A paper on the anatomy, histology, and embryology of Limulus polyphemus, by A. S. Packard, jun., M.D. (Anniversary Mem. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist. 1880), may be regarded as a ...

A kind of spoken love song, Limulus Love is all about a most remarkable nonhuman creature: the American Horseshoe Crab (Limulus Polyphemus). Part poetry (found and original), part informational, a bit ...