Paleontologists have discovered a new species, albeit a very old new species. The fossilized creature, which they are calling ...

S omething ancient still walks the world’s shorelines—creatures with armored shells and spiky tails that seem plucked from the pages of a prehistoric epic. Horseshoe crabs, with their alien ...

Horseshoe crabs are commonly referred to as 'living fossils.' They have existed for more than 200 million years, even ...

In a world where everything is constantly changing, it’s amazing that some creatures have stayed almost the same for millions ...

A newly-discovered species of ancient creature is pushing that practice ... It’s being called a crab, but the researchers who discovered it are quick to point out how dramatically different ...

like blue crabs, in that they don’t have a uniformly hard exoskeleton and can’t grow their own shells. Instead, hermit crabs have a hard exoskeleton on the front part of their bodies but a ...