We advanced primates have come up with countless ways of creating homes, including, for example, using beer cans as construction materials. But simpler creatures in nature also, of course, have their ...

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Dense patterns made by sand bubbler crabs at Kewarra Beach north of Cairns. Source: John Brock If you’re lucky enough to get down to the beach this summer, you’ll probably notice evidence of a tiny ...

SUSAN SCOTT The round, blue-and-white body of a soldier crab resembles a glass marble. Select an option below to continue reading this premium story. Already a Honolulu Star-Advertiser subscriber? Log ...

What could have caused these soft little balls of beach sand (see photo, right) to form? There were huge numbers of them stretched along about 700 metres of this beach about 100 kilometres north of ...

The soldier crab Mictyris brevidactylus Stimpson inhabits sandy flats of Southeast Asia. The crabs that we studied fed on deposited matter in the surface sand in two ways. On well-drained sand in the ...