More Georgia Outdoors Episodes
Recent blog posts have featured three more video episodes produced by Georgia Outdoors, and hosted by Sharon Collins. All are well worth...
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...
Sticking to It: Barnacles
Although barnacles live in shells made of calcium carbonate plates stuck to docks, boat bottoms, and other hard surfaces, they are in...
Water Babies
A 19th century children's book: 'The Water-Babies, A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby,' written by the Reverend Charles Kingsley, was popular...
Georgia Outdoor Episodes
The PBS show Georgia Outdoors, produced and hosted by veteran reporter Sharon Collins, has wonderful episodes on coastal wildlife and...
The Curious Case of the Comatose Crabs
Blue crabs are the basis of an iconic, and important, fishery along the U.S. Atlantic Coast. Georgia fishermen typically land hundreds of...
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...
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...