I took this photo while visiting Assateague Island National Seashore in Berlin, Maryland, on June 14. My original plan was to get a good picture of the wild horses, but I didn’t get any I liked. I was ...

ALTHOUGH many people relax on beaches between Atlantic City and Rio de Janeiro, and although these sandy coasts are densely populated by ghost crabs, meetings of man and ghost are not especially ...

Walking along the beach at night with a flashlight might reveal luminescent dots peeking out above the sand. They could in fact be the eyes of ghost crabs, small nocturnal crustaceans that burrow ...

Front view of an Atlantic ghost crab (Ocypode quadrata) with raised body and claws open on the sands of Praia do Buraco in Balneario Camboriu, Santa Catarina - Brazil. (Image courtesy of Stock ...

You wouldn't want to encounter an angry crab -- but as well as brandishing and snapping their claws, scientists have discovered that crabs can also "growl" in a show of aggression. Researchers at the ...

When the sun sets and the beach quiets, tiny, skittering spectral creatures begin to peek out of their sandy burrows. Locals know and love the ghost crabs, and a favorite pastime of Carolina beach ...

On some stretches of the Texas coast, ghost crabs scurry by the hundreds, darting sideways across the sand like tiny beach watchmen. But on others, they’ve all but disappeared. During my 40-mile round ...