Another pic from the beach🥰 You know there are so many creat..
Added 2019-09-18 16:52:32 +0000 UTCAnother pic from the beach🥰 You know there are so many creatures that live on the beach and in the sand! I’m pretty sure a lot of you guys know, but yea. Lol Organisms live in every area of a beach. Diatoms, algae and other microorganisms live in the sand -- large concentrations of diatoms give the sand a bright sheen. Invertebrates such as ghost shrimps (Callianassa major) also live in sand, creating burrows you can sometimes see as small openings on the surface. Ghost crabs (Ocypode quadratus), blue crabs (Callinectes sapidus), pagurid crabs (Pagurus spp.) and many other crab species live on shorelines, and salt-tolerant grasses and other plants grow in dry beach areas. Shore birds such as the sandwich tern (Sterna sandvicensis) nest in the bare sand of upper beach zones. Seals and other marine mammals rest on the sand, and land mammals such as foxes, raccoons and feral cats scavenge along beaches.
