Pyconogonids, or sea spiders, are found throughout the world’s oceans, but reach startlingly large sizes around the poles. Screengrab from Schmidt Ocean Institute's Facebook video “Technically ...

The green turtle is a large, weighty sea turtle with a wide, smooth carapace, or shell. It inhabits tropical and subtropical coastal waters around the world and has been observed clambering onto ...

The removal of large shells and shell fragments also has the potential to alter the rate of shoreline erosion. This summer, instead of collecting sea shells as keepsakes, consider a more ...

While all other sea turtles have hard, bony shells, the inky-blue carapace of ... filling the nest, leaving a large, disturbed area of sand that makes detection by predators difficult, and finally ...