Coastal biomedical labs are bleeding more horseshoe crabs with little accountability

Horseshoe crabs are bled at a facility in Charleston, S.C., in June 2014.Ariane Mueller Horseshoe crabs used to be everywhere.Millions of years before dinosaurs roamed the planet, each spring, the hard-shelled creatures gathered to mate in massive mounds along the beaches of the Atlantic coast.Later, migratory shorebirds like the robin-sized red knot learned to fly up from South America to join them for a feast.

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