When you walk barefoot on a beach, you have billions of tiny grains beneath your feet. Soft, warm, sometimes sticky, these ...

It also shares the petal-like pattern both inside and out of other sand dollars. This same pattern and spiny-ness is also shared by sea urchins, another echinoderm that lives in Maine.

Microscopic claw hairs help hermit crabs sense threats and make quick decisions, revealing a link between anatomy and ...

We have made shell mobiles, arranged shells in patterns to make picture frames, ... My sister, Leanne Peek, is an artist and framed the shell with sand and a sky-painted background.