Featured Creatures

The purple sea urchin that lives in the west coast of the United States is an echinoderm with tube feet and long spines and a mouth with strong jaws. It’s a voracious herbivore that can have a devastating influence on its environment if not held in check by predation.

Arthropods grow in a very different way than you and I do. Blue crabs, like all arthropods, shed their exoskeletons to grow. For crabs, that means shedding their shells and growing a new one, a process called molting.