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Horseshoe Crabs, Which Populate The Maine Coast, Have Hired A Lawyer To Ensure Another Few Hundred Million Years

Ted CohenBy Ted CohenJune 3, 2026Updated:June 3, 20265 Comments2 Mins Read
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Horseshoe crabs finally have legal representation. It only took 500 million years or so.

A so-called environmental group has filed a lawsuit in behalf of the ancient chelicerates trying to get them classified as endangered.

After the National Marine Fisheries Service declined to list the species as needing protection, the Center for Biological Diversity has gone to court.

The center is seeking Endangered Species Act protections for the crabs, which live up and down the Atlantic coast.

The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court, challenges National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s finding that federal protections for horseshoe crabs were not warranted, according to WBOC-TV.

“Environmentalists” argue the agency improperly dismissed evidence showing population declines and failed to follow required procedures under the Endangered Species Act.

The lawsuit claims horseshoe-crab populations have experienced significant declines in recent decades due to overharvesting and habitat loss.

Shore birds along the Maine coast, whose diets include the eggs of horseshoe crabs, may be getting away with murder.

While environmentalists blame excessive harvesting and habitat loss, the birds eating the future generations of crabs are getting away with impunity…

Horseshoe crabs were crawling along the shallow sandy bottoms of earth’s oceans 200 million years before the first dinosaurs came on the scene.

The crabs have been described as “living fossils,” having changed little since they first appeared 250 million years ago, and similar-looking fossil remnants extend back to 200 million years before that.

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Louisewoods
Louisewoods
20 days ago

Common Sense , Patriotic , Christian , Conservative , Fiscally Responsible People , who live in Maine , are becoming the REAL Endangered Species .

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Dr. Ed
Dr. Ed
20 days ago

AWFULs (Affluent White Female Urban Liberals) view the only male interested in them.

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Gardiner Schneider
Gardiner Schneider
20 days ago

Wow, that crab is almost falling out of its shell….oh, no, that is the girl behind the crab that is almost falling out of her bathing suit top….

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jay dillon
jay dillon
19 days ago

“Horseshoe crabs are chelicerate arthropods (subphylum Chelicerata), not true crabs. 
 They are more closely related to spiders and scorpions (arachnids) than to crustaceans.” –(Internet AI via Brave browser).. Whether they “lawyer up” or not, please let’s be kind and gentle to these amazing creatures!! Also I want the walruses reestablished on the Maine coast, as they and the seals have every right to be here. I did see one walrus in Taunton Bay, early 1960s. (Observed from Burying Island for about 20 minutes through excellent binoculars.)

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Islander
Islander
19 days ago

Lobsters are also like spiders as are crabs, eight legs, exoskeleton, there is a reason we call them bugs

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