On any piece of rocky shore one notices bands of different life. The intertidal is a transition zone between land and sea ...

There are hundreds of urchin species, and they’re found in every ocean on Earth, from the intertidal zone to more than four ...

A devastating sea star plague triggered an unexpected ecological shift, creating a mussel boom that sea otters turned into a ...

“And you can be my assistant,” I kindly informed her. We were exploring the intertidal zone — that extraordinary world between high and low tide — on a very special beach: the beach I grew ...

La Zona Intertidal was made at a time when terrorist acts from both state and paramilitary were the order of the day in El Salvador and shaped the global perception of the country Instead of the ...

Foraging on the shores of the Pacific Ocean, I explored for edible treasures in the cool waters. I harvested two species of ...

But despite its apparent lethargy,Pisaster ochraceus serves as a top predator of the intertidal zone—tiger of the tide pool—though it lacks anything like a brain. Sarah Ann Thompson ...

Researchers are checking deeper water to find the once-common bivalves, while mussel farmers use new methods to grow ...