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 animals inside clamp themselves to the rock surface, safely secured...
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 waves, be cast up on the beach. No longer hidden...
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 a mollusc a member of the same group as slugs...
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 or the ability to give hefty electrical shocks. The weever...
The Exocoetidae and Other Flying Fishes
How do the members of Exocoetidae compare to other flyers? Researchers traditionally group flying fish with all the other vertebrate gliders:
“flying” frogs with their expanded webbing on the front and hind feet.
Draco, the flying...
Flying Fish – How to Fly Fish?
Yes, you heard correctly, a fish can fly? But question is how to fly fish? People flying in airplanes invariably think of birds in flight and often draw analogies between the aerodynamic design of...
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 can be found crammed into a single square yard of...