Archive for July, 2008
These tiny colorful clams are juvenile versions of the clams that will eventually grow up to live in the big shells you might paint or use as a digging tool.
Did you see them wriggle under the sand? They use a muscled foot to dig a burrow and hide from their enemies: crabs, sea stars, [...]
It was another great weekend on the beach for my family and everyone has new and exciting Beach Chair Scientist questions. The best part about being a Beach Chair Scientist is to clarify misconceptions, so I am going to first start with the question, “What are jellyfish?”
Jellyfish, contrary to their popular common name, are not [...]
Actually seaweed is a term given too many different types of marine plants that grow in the ocean and none of them are weeds, in the sense that we would try to get rid up them with a weed killer.
The basic scientific term would really be algae. Algae (Red, brown, or green) are a very [...]
I agree the horseshoe crab is quite possibly the scariest looking creature along the shoreline. However, what makes this animal so amazing it that underneath that tough pointy chitin exoskeleton is a sweetheart of an animal. The horseshoe has survived since before the time of the dinosaurs and it is primarily due to the amazing [...]
