November 2023 Blue Buttons By Stephanie Boyd As I sit down to write my final words for this magazine, my heart is filled with a myriad of... Read More
October 2023 Blue Dragon By Stephanie Boyd The blue dragon, Glaucus atlanticus, is a type of mollusk, or sea slug, known as a nudibranch. These are shell-less... Read More
September 2023 Salps By Stephanie Boyd Salps are semi-transparent barrel-shaped zooplankton resembling jellyfish. However, despite the resemblance, salps are in a separate phylum from jellyfish, their... Read More
August 2023 Black-Necked Stilt By Stephanie Boyd Five species of similar-looking stilts are recognized in the genus Himantopus. They have the second-longest legs in proportion to their... Read More
July 2023 Ghost Shrimp By Stephanie Boyd Ghost shrimp are small, soft, and translucent crustaceans of the intertidal zone. Despite what their name and appearance suggest though,... Read More
June 2023 Killdeer By Stephanie Boyd Killdeer are small shorebirds who do not, in fact, kill deer. Their name is a reference to the sound of... Read More
May 2023 Purple Storm Snail By Stephanie Boyd Janthinidae are a family of holoplanktonic sea snails (they live in the water column for their entire life cycle and... Read More
April 2023 Brittle Stars By Stephanie Boyd With over 2000 described species, Ophiuroidea is the largest class of living echinoderms, found in all oceans from intertidal to... Read More
March 2023 Bridled Tern By Stephanie Boyd Bridled terns are medium-sized tropical terns, with long, slender wings and a deeply forked tail. They reach a little over... Read More
February 2023 Humpback Whale By Stephanie Boyd "We sent whalesong into interstellar space because the creatures that sing these songs are superlative beings that fill us with... Read More