Q. My son and I often find cone-shaped shells attached to shells and debris on the beach. The attached shells are all sizes and some are quite large. They are mostly white or white-ish purple with an ...

Blathers' Blabber: They attach to hard places, and though they look like bivalves, they are related to shrimp and crab. Some species are even edible and have a very crab-like taste to them, making ...

It's hard enough to find a mate when you're able to get up and move around. But just imagine the difficulties the poor barnacle faces, permanently glued to an underwater rock or hull. Most sessile ...

I’ve been temporarily released from my social media silence to talk about my latest paper, which is published in the open-access journal PeerJ. So first of all HAI EVERYONE! Second of all – here’s how ...