I recently received an email from a reader describing a shell he found washed up on a wintery beach, something he grew up calling a ‘half deck’ - as in, he clarified, a boat. He had included a photo ...

We are coming into that perfect window of summer when the greenhead season is over and those of us who live near salt marshes can go outside again, the days are warm and breezy, the beach beckons.

Walk the beach or peer into a tidepool anywhere along the northeastern U.S. coast, and you'll find shells stacked on top of one another. They're most likely common Atlantic slipper shells, a species ...

IN 1923 the present writer found a shell of a dead slipper-limpet (Crepidula fornicata) at West Mersea, Essex, bored extensively by the boring sponge Cliona celata. This year a good number of living ...

Some things in life I can depend on. I was born a woman to-be and I will die, having been a woman. Nothing that ever happens to my body will change my genes. I am female to the core. Hank, my husband, ...

Many animals change sex at some point in their lives, often after reaching a certain size. Snails called slipper limpets begin life as males, and become female as they grow. A new Smithsonian study ...

The "Wanted" posters are staying up for a US shellfish which became a pest in a marine biodiversity hotspot. Slipper limpets were mistakenly brought on baby mussels to the Menai Strait between ...

Many animals change sex at some point in their lives, often after reaching a certain size. A type of snail called slipper limpet begins life as a male, and becomes female as it grows. A new ...

We are coming into that perfect window of summer when the greenhead season is over and those of us who live near salt marshes can go outside again, the days are warm and breezy, the beach beckons.