More than 100 horsehoe crabs rescued from gill net at Mandai

The horseshoe crab is a rare and endagered "living fossil" whose numbers have dropped significantly in the last 20 years.

More than 100 rare horseshoe crabs (Carcinoscorpius rotundicauda) entangled in a newly setup gill net in Mandai.

Graduate students from Duke University, US, on a Tropical Urban Ecology course conducted by Dan Ritschoff, visiting scientist and Honorary Raffles Museum Associate Paul Clark of the Natural History Museum, UK, and Raffles Museum volunteers (Toddycats!) found out... [full story]