This female Wilson’s plover is defending her newly hatched chick from a ghost crab. If you have ever been to the beach, you may have a caught a glimpse of something scurrying swiftly across the sand ...

ALTHOUGH many people relax on beaches between Atlantic City and Rio de Janeiro, and although these sandy coasts are densely populated by ghost crabs, meetings of man and ghost are not especially ...

When the sun sets and the beach quiets, tiny, skittering spectral creatures begin to peek out of their sandy burrows. Locals know and love the ghost crabs, and a favorite pastime of Carolina beach ...

One of the most “notoriously shy” crabs on the East Coast was caught showing off in a video posted Tuesday by Cape Hatteras National Seashore on the Outer Banks. It shows a fast-moving Atlantic ghost ...

Ghost crabs, notably species within the genus Ocypode, are emblematic inhabitants of sandy beach ecosystems across tropical and subtropical regions. Their burrowing behaviour, ease of detection and ...

Jeff Lewis got a shot of flamingos at Pea Island National Wildlife Refuge on the Outer Banks of North Carolina. While flamingos can be found in parts of Florida, it is unusual to see them farther ...

If you have ever been to the beach, you may have a caught a glimpse of something scurrying swiftly across the sand and into a hole. What you might have seen is called a ghost crab. Ghost crabs are ...