Q. My son and I often find cone-shaped shells attached to shells and debris on the beach. The attached shells are all sizes and some are quite large. They are mostly white or white-ish purple with an ...

Whitish barnacles encrust boats and nearly every other solid object that spends time submerged in salt water. Everything from whales and sea turtles to crabs must either scrape off these crusty ...

I’ve been temporarily released from my social media silence to talk about my latest paper, which is published in the open-access journal PeerJ. So first of all HAI EVERYONE! Second of all – here’s how ...