Fishy Facts

Killdeer are small shorebirds who do not, in fact, kill deer. Their name is a reference to the sound of...

Janthinidae are a family of holoplanktonic sea snails (they live in the water column for their entire life cycle and...

With over 2000 described species, Ophiuroidea is the largest class of living echinoderms, found in all oceans from intertidal to...

Bridled terns are medium-sized tropical terns, with long, slender wings and a deeply forked tail. They reach a little over...

"We sent whalesong into interstellar space because the creatures that sing these songs are superlative beings that fill us with...

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

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...

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