Stephanie Boyd

"The woodland lakes would be solitudes, indeed, did they lack the finishing touch to make the picture complete – the...

For many years my January article has been a detailed month-by-month review of the previous year’s fishing along with some...

The species of stone crab local to the Texas coast is the Gulf stone crab, Menippe adina. It is very...

Gliding just beneath the surface of the water, at first glance, it appears to be a snake. But upon closer...

You’ve done the Stingray Shuffle, but what about the Electric Slide?~Padre Island National Seashore Facebook Every regular beachgoer in Texas...

Eyespots, also called false eyes or ocelli, are color patterns which consist of roughly concentric rings of contrasting colors and...

The white ibis, Eudocimus albus, stands about two feet tall and has a wingspan of three feet. Its plumage is...

It’s definitely not qualified to care for hospital patients, so how did this barbel-faced bottom dweller get the name “nurse”...

It’s the stuff of science fiction: a parasite that eats, and replaces, the tongue of its host. That’s the very...

If you’ve never heard of a tar lily, you’re not alone. Few have been discovered in our oceans, but two...