The Long-Limbed Brittle Star
Looking like Long-Limbed versions of their close relatives, the starfishes, Brittle Star occurs in huge numbers around the sea coast. Sometimes thousands of individuals...
Coral Reef Destruction: How Human Activities Are Threatening Ocean Life
The coral reef destruction is badly impacted due to human activities. Reefs are very fragile underwater ecosystems and environments that cannot tolerate a wide...
The Sea Bed Flatfishes
Sea Bed Flatfishes of great importance to the fishing industry are found in nearly every sea in the world, and sometimes in freshwater. There...
The Tenacious Lumpsucker Fish
The Lumpsucker Fish is ugly it may be, but with its gaudy colors and devotion to parental duty. The lumpsucker is one of the...
UK Shingle Beach Communities
UK Shingle Beach makes up a quarter of the coastline. Some of these are shifting and unstable, affording the opportunity for only the hardiest...
Limpets: Snails of Rocky Shores
Limpets attached to rocks are a familiar sight around our coastline. Their shells are exposed to the relentless pull of the tides. But the...
The Strandline – Whim of the Waves
Representatives of the great hidden storehouse of life in seas from the most primitive hydroid to an enormous whale may, on the whim of...
The Amazing Rock Drilling Shellfish
Boring bivalves, as science unkindly names these extraordinary Shellfish use their hard shells to cut their way into rocks and wood. A bivalve is...
Weever Fish – Danger on the Beach
Although the vast majority of Weever Fish throughout the world are harmless to man! There is a sizeable number with deadly stings, poisonous flesh,...
Aquatic Antagonists – Close Encounter with the Enviornment
Aquatic Antagonists: Indirect Nematocyst Entombment and Acute Allergy Contact Dermatitis triggered by Nudibranchs. It is well-known among divers, swimmers, and beach-goers who coelenterate like...