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Sea Anemones

Sea anemones, like the one pictured above in a tide pool on the Oregon coast, at first glance seem like flowers from an alien world. The...

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...

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. ...

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.