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Every May, millions of horseshoe crabs lay their eggs along the Delaware Bay — and tiny birds arrive mid-migration to eat them. Now this natural wonder is threatened by climate change and Big Pharma. Can science save this symbiotic spectacle?

A primordial sea animal that lives on the tidal mudflats of the East Coast and serves as a linchpin for the production of vital medicines stands to benefit from new protective standards.

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — The horseshoe crab has been scuttling in the ocean and tidal pools for more than 400 million years, playing a vital role in the East Coast

PORTLAND (AP) – A primordial sea animal that lives on the tidal mudflats of the east coast of the United States and serves as a linchpin for the production of vital medicines stands to benefit from new protective standards. But conservationists who have been trying for years to save a declining bird species – the […]

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — The horseshoe crab has been scuttling in the ocean and tidal pools for a long time, playing a vital role in the East Coast ecosystem along

The biomedical industry is adopting new standards to protect a primordial sea animal that is a linchpin of the production of vital medicines

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Blue blood from horseshoe crabs is valuable for medicine, but a declining bird needs them for food | 2023-07-31 18:06:07

The biomedical industry is adopting new standards to protect a primordial sea animal that is a linchpin of the production of vital medicines. But conservationists worry the approach doesn’t go

But a declining bird, the rufa red knot, needs them for food.