Horseshoe crabs were crawling along the shallow sandy bottoms of Earth’s oceans 200 million years before the first dinosaurs came on the scene. But some populations have declined dramatically with the rise of humans, raising concerns they may be headed toward extinction. One of the biggest drivers of their population collapse is their unsustainable harvest […]
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    Van Dyck noted that there’s no fixed end date for either company to completely cease horseshoe crab-derived testing, nor is there an independent third-party monitoring program.