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Workers were in a rush to prepare for the tourist season but not the human kind. These beaches in New Jersey were being readied for the hordes of migrating birds expected to drop in over the next few weeks. The beaches are prime spots for horseshoe
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Conn. (AP) With their spiky, armor-plated shells, they look like miniature tanks mounting a surprise invasion on local beaches except they have been at it for nearly a half-billion years. But the American horseshoe crab, the homely, humble distant
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Naturalist Beth Pratt has been exploring and celebrating wildlife since she was a child, whether discovering the great whales of Cape Cod with her parents or creating a special luxury habitat for her backyard frogs. As a young girl she gazed with
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On both sides of New Jersey, dump trucks are depositing sand and bulldozers are racing against time to spread it out. Along the ocean, the goal is to restore beaches destroyed by Superstorm Sandy before the tourists arrive. But along Delaware Bay,
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Hernandez, Orlando Sentinel Those frisky spring breakers have returned to frolic in the surf...It's horseshoe crab mating season and scientists are asking the public for help in documenting the reproductive habits of the ancient and widely
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This Your daily look at news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today. The Florida Lottery keeps breaking sales records for its scratch-off tickets. Lottery officials on Monday announced that it sold $74 million worth of
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Jessica Kourkounis for The New York Times Native horseshoe crabs coming ashore last May to lay eggs on Reed Beach in Cape May Courthouse, N.J. A fisheries commission warns that their welfare is threatened by potential pathogens from other species
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A truck loaded with the crabs, which are declared protected species by the government, was intercepted by the officers when it crossed into the Aur Duri area. Almansyah said the truck, with police number BK 9336 SF, was headed for Medan, North
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When red knots descend on the beaches of Delaware Bay this spring famished from their marathon flight toward the Canadian Arctic from the tip of South America, the rosy-breasted shorebirds may find slim pickings instead of the feast of horseshoe crab
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Wind, waves and storm surge re-sculpted much of the state's coastline, with potentially disastrous consequences for two of our state's iconic critters: horseshoe crabs and the Red Knot sandpipers whose lives depend on them. The Red Knot is the ultra-
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