I recently received an email from a reader describing a shell he found washed up on a wintery beach, something he grew up calling a ‘half deck’ - as in, he clarified, a boat. He had included a photo ...

It really taps into Connecticut Chef Brian Lewis’ creative side when shoreline forager Hunter Peterson arrives at Lewis’ restaurant with slipper limpets, periwinkle snails, golden oyster mushrooms, ...

Natural history collections are unique archives of biodiversity. They document how living things transform over time and what effects aspects like climate change or other man-made environmental ...

Many animals change sex at some point in their lives, often after reaching a certain size. A type of snail called slipper limpet begins life as a male, and becomes female as it grows. A new ...

IN 1923 the present writer found a shell of a dead slipper-limpet (Crepidula fornicata) at West Mersea, Essex, bored extensively by the boring sponge Cliona celata. This year a good number of living ...

DURING recent investigations, carried out with the aid of a Government grant, on the oyster beds in the river Blackwater, freshly caught specimens of the American slipper-limpet (Crepidula fornicata) ...

Researchers have managed to shine some light on the decline in numbers of the European oyster. They have concluded that the occurrence of the invasive American slipper limpet (Crepidula fornicata) is ...