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This week, Ecology formally revised the state procedural rules for managing marine and freshwater shorelines.

Ice cream cone worms are easily recognized by their distinct cone-shaped tubes that can be up to two inches long.

Cooler and wetter conditions set the stage for a favorable supply of freshwater in June 2017.

Meet the tube-dwelling anemone, a delicate blossom at the bottom of Puget Sound.

With its easily recognizable shell (the largest found on Puget Sound beaches), we are certainly over the moon for this month's critter: the Moon Snail.

A voucher sheet is a document that contains descriptions and photos of a species. We create these to identify the critters we monitor and to help other scientists doing similar work.

Unlike most sea urchins, which are round, heart urchins appear heart-shaped, elongate with a small depression at one end for the mouth.

The black-eyed hermit is never far from home, because it carries it along. Hermit crabs find protection from predators inside empty snail shells.

November 2016 surface-conditions report: heavy rains swelled Puget Sound rivers and streams to above-normal levels, so water temperatures, salinity, and oxygen improved.

The frost-spot corambe is a beautiful sea slug with frosty white speckles that seem to glow as if it just swallowed a set of twinkly lights.