Sam Jorgensen News Today

BOSTON — They’re prized by the biomedical community for their life-saving blue blood, but the increasing demand for horseshoe crabs is raising concerns about the well-being of the prehistoric species,

BOSTON — They’re prized by the biomedical community for their life-saving blue blood, but the increasing demand for horseshoe crabs is raising concerns about the well-being of the prehistoric species,

Kevin Woster details the story of Sam Jorgensen and the bridge now named in his honor.

Along with the lamplighter, the human alarm clock and the milkman, the world has seen a fair number of jobs succumbing to extinction in recent years...

A compound inside horseshoe crab blood plays a vital role in vaccine, drug, and medical device testing. But conservationists say that the cost of bleeding hundreds of thousands of horseshoe crabs a year is too high.