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 ...

Imagine a ghost crab combined with a fiddler crab. Now imagine that hybrid on steroids, like the performance-enhancing drugs used by professional baseball players in the 1990s. That image effectively ...

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 ...

Cindy Hamilton got a photo of a ruddy turnstone as he was flying overhead at Grandview Nature Preserve in Hampton in an area known as Factory Point, where birds tend to congregate. A ruddy turnstone ...

Non-native blue land crabs have been increasingly spotted in South Carolina and the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources (SCDNR) has asked residents to report sightings. The blue land crabs ...