In an environment as vast and extreme as the world’s oceans, survival of the fittest takes on new meaning. That’s probably why cooperation is the name of the game for many of the more vulnerable ...

Sometimes, the best survival strategy is disguising yourself like something no one wants to eat, much less mess with and dig around in: bird poop. That is the approach taken by newly discovered spider ...

This week’s low tide beachcombing survey revealed one of the coast’s most unusual visitors — a sponge crab. At first glance it looked like a waterlogged clump of sponge washed into the wrack line, but ...