One hundred thousand years ago, a human cousin walked a rock- ribbed beach along the Mediterranean Sea, her head lowered and her large eyes scanning the shoreline. Now and again she stopped, bent her ...

Sea butterflies flit through the ocean on gossamer wings, each species with a style of its own. These tiny marine snails, or thecosomes, migrate up to surface waters at night to feed and sink to ...

TROY – A nondescript one-story building sits along Second Street in the city’s Osgood neighborhood, and all that hints of the wonders that lie within are two handmade placards displaying a clam shell.

For me, there’s no more resonant image from a Florida childhood than this: You’re on a bright beach, sun blazing, clouds so big they must surely be the home of the gods. The roar of the waves ...

Having recently spent several quiet days on nearly empty beaches along the New Jersey shore, I was taken by the beauty of what had to be millions of broken shells and fragments scattered along the ...