Getting something in our eyes is irritating, both figuratively and literally. Other than flushing them with eye drops or water, there’s not much we can do without risking damage to our eyes. However, ...

Walking along the beach at night with a flashlight might reveal luminescent dots peeking out above the sand. They could in fact be the eyes of ghost crabs, small nocturnal crustaceans that burrow ...

On some stretches of the Texas coast, ghost crabs scurry by the hundreds, darting sideways across the sand like tiny beach watchmen. But on others, they’ve all but disappeared. During my 40-mile round ...

On some stretches of the Texas coast, ghost crabs scurry by the hundreds, darting sideways across the sand like tiny beach watchmen. On others, they’ve all but disappeared. During my 40-mile, ...

I took this photo while visiting Assateague Island National Seashore in Berlin, Maryland, on June 14. My original plan was to get a good picture of the wild horses, but I didn’t get any I liked. I was ...

A strange kind of “art show” appears with every low tide across the sandy shores of the Indo-Pacific and Australia — only to ...

Ocypode convexa commonly known as the golden ghost crab in endemic to the west coast of Australia. Image supplied: Dr Casper Avenant, Edith Cowan University. Research by Edith Cowan University and the ...