Sea truffles, sea lettuce, dulse, dillisk, Irish moss. All sorts of seaweed can be found on Scottish shores, a passionate ...

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"The seaweed on these bare rocks is very slippery,” says Jayson Byles, as he balances on boulders at Kingsbarns Beach near Fife.The view is pleasant now that rain has stopped. A New Zealand-born ...

The sea without shores: an ecosystem teeming with life, yet notorious for creating seaweed that invades beaches with its foul ...

They may not look like much when washed up on the beach, but seaweeds provide a vital underwater habitat. Professor Juliet Brodie is shedding light on the vast forests growing in our oceans. There are ...

It’s low tide around North Uist, a remote island off the West Coast of Scotland. Dark tendrils of seaweed lie glistening on the rocky shore, and a lone figure in orange waders moves methodically ...

Patchy - the seaweed grows in large patches (greater than one metre across) but does not cover the whole width of your plot. Sparse - the seaweed grows in small patches (less than one metre across) If ...

This story appears in the November 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. Name the last place where you saw seaweed on the menu, not including a Japanese restaurant. Drawing a blank?

They blend in almost perfectly with the seaweed, appearing as tiny, yellowish blobs on the sand. But look closer, and you’ll discover that these are actually mollusks—snails without external ...