Fish

Lionfish: Beautiful, but Deadly, Invaders

Lionfish are strikingly gorgeous tropical reef fish, striped pink, red, silver and black with graceful frills decorating their fins. But...

Fishy Monsters

Fishing around docks and oyster reefs can yield an unpleasant surprise: squirming on the hook is a squat, monstrous-looking fish with a...

Gone Fishing

The Sherr family: sons Jared and Aaron, husband Barry, and father-in-law Saul Sherr surf fishing on Nannygoat Beach, Sapelo Island, 1987....

The Teeth of Jaws

One of the pleasures of beachcombing on Georgia sea islands is spotting rare treasures such as castoff shark's teeth. All sharks have...

So, what is a mummichog?

The minnow-like fish swarming in tidal creeks at low tide, or in the marsh at high tide, are mummichogs, the most common of the species...

ABOUT ME

The book's author, Evelyn Brown Sherr (here with Max the Aussie In Oregon) has had a life-long fascination with the natural world. Born in Dublin, GA, she grew up on the Atlantic coast of Florida. After graduating from Emory University in Atlanta, she earned a PhD in zoology with a focus on ocean ecology at Duke University In Durham, NC. She was a research scientist at the University of Georgia Marine Institute on Sapelo Island from 1974 to 1990.