In this post, you can find out about the day I volunteered with two wildlife biologists to do research in a salt marsh, what it has to do with blue crabs, and how the scientists are using the data they have collected to save diamondback terrapins.
Did a Constitutional amendment that made it illegal to drink alcohol save diamondback terrapins from extinction?
Stew, booze and history. Everything you want in a science blog for kids.
Why are great blue heron feet so goofy looking?
Goofiness is in the eye of the beholder.
Who is better at walking in salt marsh mud: great blue herons or children's authors?
One of them sinks waist deep into the mud. The other one doesn't.
Why do fiddler crabs dance like your grandparents did in 1977?
Find out why fiddler crabs are the tiny, arthropod John Travoltas of the salt marsh.