“Before you do anything else,” curator Chris Meyer said the minute I arrived at the National Museum of Natural History’s Invertebrate Zoology collection, “you have to vote for beauty.” He led me ...

While snorkeling off a windward beach, I found a marine animal on the ocean floor in about 10 feet of water. The creature lay buried in the sand, belly up, with just its teeth showing. I could barely ...

I remember this tongue twister from my school days — She sells seashells on the seashore! I also remember lovely rambling evenings at the beach, collecting bucketfuls of shells that were washed up on ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. There are sea shells that wash up on the beach and then there are those that most people don’t often get to see. The common beach ...