Spiny lobster
Spiny lobster, crawfish, crayfish, rock lobsters - many names, one animal! This pretty lobster was made extinct in many areas through overfishing, but is now making a slow comeback.
Spiny lobster, crawfish, crayfish, rock lobsters - many names, one animal! This pretty lobster was made extinct in many areas through overfishing, but is now making a slow comeback.
A well known inhabitant of UK seas, common lobsters can reach up to 60cm in length.
A bizarre half lobster/half crab, this squat lobster is one of the true stunners of the rocky shore!
Northumberland Wildlife Trust is offering people from the region (and beyond) with an interest in nature, the opportunity to have their say on environmental threats and climate change.
Northumberland Wildlife Trust has expressed its relief and agrees with the recent decision, that the sea around Lindisfarne will not be designated a Higher Protected Marine Area (HPMA).
Barnacles are so common on our rocky shores that you've probably never really noticed them. They're the little grey bumps covering the rocks that hurt your feet when you're…
Watch whales, swim a snorkel safari and ramble those rock pools this summer!
These feisty crustaceans are the ‘Houdinis’ of the rocky shore, evading capture as soon as disturbed!
The brown shrimp blends perfectly with its seabed home and is found all around the coasts of the UK.
There's another world waiting beneath the waves. Seals weave in and out of sunlit kelp forests, cuttlefish flash all the colours of the rainbow, starfish graze along the muddy seabed and…
Goose barnacles often wash up on our shores attached to flotsam after big storms.