Stephanie Boyd

The black and white livery, the beak formation, and the excited barking voices of the skimmers all combine to make...

Most structures that we call "coral" are, in fact, made up of hundreds to thousands of tiny animals called polyps....

The cattle egret, Bubulcus ibis, is a cosmopolitan species of the heron family found in the tropics, subtropics, and warm...

Diamondback terrapins are the only land turtles in North America that inhabit the brackish waters of estuaries, tidal creeks, and...

Though the long tradition of snipe hunt pranks has convinced many people otherwise, snipes are, in fact, real – but...

In 1925, on a survey expedition near Panama for the New York Zoological Society, William Beebe’s crew hauled in “a...

There are mushrooms living in the sea! Well technically, a mushroom is the fruiting body of specific species of fungi,...

The wahoo is a large, predatory mackerel that lives in tropical and subtropical oceans around the world. Reaching up to...

Giant isopods are the largest known member of the isopod family, a group of crustaceans that are closely related to...

The roseate spoonbill is one of six species of spoonbills in the world, but is the only one found in...