From colorful sea slugs to massive clams, mollusks are some of the most fascinating creatures in the ocean. Let’s meet a few of them!
Crustaceans & Mollusks
Exploring Nature, May 2026
Nature highlights for May.
You Can Draw a Garden Snail Submissions
View some of the children’s submissions for You Can Draw a Garden Snail art lesson.
Study Guide Puzzles, July 2025
Reinforce nature facts from the July issue with the Study Guide puzzles!
You Can Draw a Garden Snail
In seven steps, you can draw this garden snail with flowers too!
Wondernose: What animal has up to 200 eyes and can easily regrow any that are lost to injury?
View the full issue in the Magazine Archive If you live on the east coast of Canada or the USA, you are probably familiar with these sea-dwelling animals. One way they are commercially caught for...
You Can Draw a Nautilus Submissions
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Wondernose: What animal is able to send out a decoy in order to distract an enemy?
View the full issue in the Magazine Archive When you think of a decoy, perhaps you picture a wooden or plastic duck placed in the water by a hunter in hopes of attracting real ducks. Well, the...
Exploring Nature, March 2024
View the full issue in the Magazine Archive Woodcocks are doing their courtship displays. Listen for their loud peenting or beeping at dusk on warm evenings. Grizzlies come out of hibernation in mid...
You Can Draw a Nautilus
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Wonders of the Night
My Chosen Spot Contest First Place Winner A gray rain spattered dismally down on the dripping earth. Forlorn rivulets of water trickled through little gullies in the soil and were lost in the larger...
Bugs and Slugs Word Search
Mailbox, November 2023
Our Month of March
I probably laughed out loud when I saw this foot-in-the-mouth shot. I have no idea where the “foot” comes from. Is it part of the critter? Many of you are sending us your March submissions for the...
Two Dozen Crabs
Land crab. Photo © Andrey Gudkov/Dreamstime.com. The cool Bahamian breezes tickle our faces. It is a relief to have some cool moments after this unusually steamy July day. We are following the...