Me and my friend need help finding what crab this is. My friend told me a story about how in southern Italy (Bari) he was on the beaches and found a crab, picking it up it had a brownish base with red sprouts growing out of it. (The brown was a bit darker I just suck at drawing.) Unknowing what it was they took it back home until after a few years later his grandma found one similar to it on the internet, apparently it was a recently found species and they found a crab unknown to science. However, after a few years they forgot the type of crab and now we cannot find any sources of a crab similar to his description. If anybody has anyone has any idea what crab it could be please let us know. He said it looked like a brown crab from the research we did trying to find it but it looked different from the photos online.

What is this? It was washed up on the beach on the Gulf of Mexico

At Ecomare, Netherlands.

My brother and I went on a night walk at Virginia Beach and found some shark/skate egg cases! They’re about three inches long, not including the little tails. I’m hoping to get an ID for the species they came from.

Thanks in advance!!

the bright orange one. north coast california. thanks all! 🙏💗

It’s National Ocean Month in the U.S. and World Ocean Day was last Thursday. I’ve been painting lots of ocean life to celebrate! I thought you might enjoy seeing this harbor seal mom nuzzling her pup while hauled out on a beach. I love seals — they’re such good moms.