Blue Buttons
As I sit down to write my final words for this magazine, my heart is filled with a myriad of...
Stephanie Boyd
Blue Dragon
The blue dragon, Glaucus atlanticus, is a type of mollusk, or sea slug, known as a nudibranch. These are shell-less...
Salps
Salps are semi-transparent barrel-shaped zooplankton resembling jellyfish. However, despite the resemblance, salps are in a separate phylum from jellyfish, their...
Black-Necked Stilt
Five species of similar-looking stilts are recognized in the genus Himantopus. They have the second-longest legs in proportion to their...
Ghost Shrimp
Ghost shrimp are small, soft, and translucent crustaceans of the intertidal zone. Despite what their name and appearance suggest though,...
Killdeer
Killdeer are small shorebirds who do not, in fact, kill deer. Their name is a reference to the sound of...
Purple Storm Snail
Janthinidae are a family of holoplanktonic sea snails (they live in the water column for their entire life cycle and...
Brittle Stars
With over 2000 described species, Ophiuroidea is the largest class of living echinoderms, found in all oceans from intertidal to...
Bridled Tern
Bridled terns are medium-sized tropical terns, with long, slender wings and a deeply forked tail. They reach a little over...
Humpback Whale
"We sent whalesong into interstellar space because the creatures that sing these songs are superlative beings that fill us with...
Gulf Coast Kitchen
Get all the latest coastal cuisine recipes from guides and authors.
Recipe of the month
Hot & Crunchy Speckled Trout with Mango Jalapeño Aioli
My friends Brandon Benton and Mary Anne Gunn shared this recipe with me. It’s got a little coastal kick and...