Taxonomy Tuesday: Sand Dollar
Sand dollars are a kind of sea urchin – and like their spiky relatives, they’re also covered in spines… just very, very small ones. The hard, bleached “sand dollars” you…
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Out Late With the Crab Crew: Tagging Ancient Arthropods
Tag Along! This post is the first of a series about the world of animal tagging and tracking technology. Before midnight, they emerged from the dark water at Coffin Point.…
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Taxonomy Tuesday: Northern Pipefish
In honor of Father’s Day on Sunday, get to know one of the animal kingdom’s most unusual dads. Pipefish are the skinny, serpentine relatives of seahorses. And as in seahorses,…
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Where Your $10 Fishing License Money Goes
In 2016, ten bucks will get you a few gallons of milk, a meal at an inexpensive restaurant, or maybe, if you drive an efficient car, half a tank of…
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Taxonomy Tuesday: Amphipod
Tiny, abundant, but often overlooked, amphipods inhabit watery environments all over the globe. On our coast, these shrimp-like crustaceans scavenge for food and make tasty morsels for larger ocean animals.…
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How to Buy a Saltwater Fishing License in South Carolina
A recreational saltwater fishing license is your ticket to exploring 200 miles of Atlantic shoreline and thousands of miles of tidal creeks in South Carolina. It’s one of the most…
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Bobwhite Quail Restoration Effort Gets New Website
Bobwhite quail populations in South Carolina have been in decline since the 1980s. A new initiative involving incentives for private landowners to create more quail-friendly habitat aims to change that.…
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