Ocean Life

The Lumpsucker Fish is ugly it may be, but with its gaudy colors and devotion to parental duty. The lumpsucker is one of the most interesting fishes of our inshore waters. Although not a...

Shingle Beach makes up a quarter of Britain's coastline. Some of these are shifting and unstable, affording the opportunity for only the hardiest species to survive, but others are more permanent and support large...

Limpets attached to rocks are a familiar sight around our coastline. Their shells are exposed to the relentless pull of the tides. But the animals inside clamp themselves to the rock surface, safely secured...

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 waves, be cast up on the beach. No longer hidden...

Boring bivalves, as science unkindly names these extraordinary shellfish, use their hard shells to cut their way into rocks and wood. A bivalve is a mollusc a member of the same group as slugs...

Although the vast majority of Weever Fish throughout the world are harmless to man! There is a sizeable number with deadly stings, poisonous flesh or the ability to give hefty electrical shocks. The weever...