Species of the day: Common Shore Crab
08 June 2020
Today is International ‘World Oceans Day’ - in celebration of our magnificent marine environments, today’s blog features a familiar denizen of British shores, the Common Shore Crab
Archive of: Marine
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Review of Highly Protected Marine Areas published today
08 June 2020
HPMAs would give the strictest possible environmental protections – all damaging activities would be banned
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Nudibranchs AKA Seaslugs
05 May 2020
Ella Garrud spends lockdown thinking about what she might be seeing in rockpools, such as nudibranchs or seaslugs, which are not closely related to garden slugs.
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Sussex Seahorses
03 April 2020
We have had a few reports recently of sightings of one our most elusive marine creatures – the small yet charismatic seahorse.
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Goose Barnacle, Barnacle Goose
06 March 2020
Goose Barnacles, can be found in their thousands still clinging to their driftwood raft on the strandline, They once puzzled people for hundreds of years.
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Slipper Limpet
02 March 2020
Along our Sussex beaches there are millions of shells of the Common Slipper Limpet - so named because the empty shells resemble tiny slippers up to 50mm long.
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Glassworts
26 January 2020
they are a flowering plant with what must be the smallest of flowers.
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Help Our Kelp - Byelaw Update
23 January 2020
The pioneering campaign to restore a vast underwater Kelp forest off the Sussex coast achieved its first major milestone, as the introduction of a critical new byelaw has been agreed.
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Creature feature: Green Shore Crab
05 January 2020
Green Shore Crabs have been recorded on every single Shoresearch survey we have undertaken in the last year
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Merry Christmas from Sussex Seas
23 December 2019
Here is some of our favourite festive-themed marine wildlife