Among the surfers and beach-casting anglers, there’s a new visitor to San Francisco’s Ocean Beach shoreline. Benjamin McInroe is there for only one reason — to find Pacific mole crabs, creatures ...

Q My kids like catching those little gray, bug-like things in the sand where the waves break on the beach. Sometimes we find them and sometimes we don't. We've heard them called sand fleas. Can you ...

Anyone who has dug their toes or fingers into the wet sand at the water's edge has no doubt unearthed a sand crab, a.k.a. sand flea or sand mole These small armadillo-shaped critters are usually no ...

The beach is full of surprises - from sand crabs scurrying in the surf to diamonds hiding beneath the sand. This adventure ...

Online registration for the 19th annual Sand Crab Classic Perch Derby will open the first week of January. The Derby will be held on March 9. Anglers can surfcast anywhere they choose, but must be ...

Tiny pieces of plastic, many of them shed from synthetic clothing, are nearly ubiquitous in the waters off the Oregon coast, and they are having harmful effects on one species that acts as a ...

Among the surfers and beach-casting anglers, there’s a new visitor to San Francisco’s Ocean Beach shoreline. Benjamin McInroe is there for only one reason — to find Pacific mole crabs, creatures ...