We’ve had a couple of periods of stormy weather and some huge tides, which means it is time to go beachcombing. Big waves and strong currents churn up the near-shore waters and deposit a wondrous ...

This week’s low midafternoon tides provided excellent beachcombing conditions around lunchtime. I found a variety of treasures, including pen shells, pear whelks, and hundreds of Atlantic cockles.

Ivory tusk shells, also known as tooth shells, belong to a group of mollusks called scaphopods. There are around 350 species ...

These ivory tusk shells found on the Texas coast are one of the ocean’s overlooked treasures.

This week, the Texas coast has seen an influx of lightning whelks washing up with the tides. Recognized as the official state shell of Texas, the lightning whelk is a fascinating marine predator that ...

Discover the many types of objects you may find in the sand — and where they come from Warning: This graphic requires JavaScript. Please enable JavaScript for the ...

If you’ve walked the shoreline recently, you might have noticed something unusual happening at your feet — a patch of sand that seemed to tremble, shimmer, or even “come alive.” That moving ground ...

Seven-30’s Wayne Phillips and Rudy Mancke visit Edisto Island. Join Seven-30’s Wayne Phillips and State Museum Natural History Curator Rudy Mancke as they visit Edisto Island, S.C. and uncover a ...

They didn’t look like much at first, just a scatter of white slivers along the tide line. They could’ve passed for fish bones ...