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Horseshoe Crabs Return to Maryland Shores for Spawning

2020-05-20

Public Can Help Document Spawning Sites The horseshoe crab — Limulus polyphemus — is returning to Maryland’s coastal shores this month for one of the world’s oldest and largest wildlife migrations. Each spring adult horseshoe crabs migrate into the coastal bays from offshore overwintering areas to spawn on sandy beaches and, to a lesser extent, […]

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Annual Horseshoe Crab Migration Begins

2019-05-24

‘Living Fossils’ Spawn Every May and June One of the world’s oldest wildlife migrations is set to begin on Maryland’s coastal bays and beaches. For 350 million years, the May and June full and new moons have fostered a giant migration of horseshoe crabs. Coming from the depths of the Atlantic Ocean, millions of these […]

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Horseshoe Crab Migration Begins on Maryland Beaches

2018-05-27

People Can Help Protect Species on Ancient Spawning Run In the coming weeks, visitors to Maryland’s coastal bays and beaches can experience one of the world’s oldest migrations – horseshoe crabs emerging to spawn, as they’ve done here for the last 350 million years. Massive numbers of these “living fossils” will come out of the […]

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