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Horseshoe Crabs: Living Fossils

The strangest animal one is likely to find on Georgia beaches is the Atlantic horseshoe crab, Limulus polyphemus. Not a true crustacean,...

Beach Ghosts

Two 'ghostly' creatures inhabit Georgia beaches. The 'ghost' most often encountered is a crab. The pale color and nocturnal behavior of...

Hermits: Crab Clowns

Hermit crabs are the clowns of the crustacean world; they have a swagger and character that justifies their popularity as marine aquarium...

Beachcombing on the Georgia Coast

While I was on Sapelo Island, I learned quite a bit about the fauna living in the surf zone and just off the coast by beachcombing. ...

Georgia fiddlers (crabs, that is)

These small crabs, scuttling in large 'herds' across the marsh at low tide, are among the most conspicuous invertebrates in Georgia salt...

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.