The Coastal Naturalist
A science-grounded voice explaining the ecology, marine biology, and natural systems of the Andaman coast
46 articles
Articles by The Coastal Naturalist
The Snail That Commutes Through Sunlight: How Deep-Sea Limpets Travel Between Ocean Worlds
Science Just Learned to Measure the Mangrove Shield
The Ocean's Medicine Cabinet Just Opened: Five New Compounds From 1,200 Sea Microbes
The Ocean's Oldest Compass: A 97-Million-Year-Old Particle May Be the First Animal GPS
12,000 Tiny Fossils From a Darwin Warehouse Just Rewrote the Opening Chapter of Complex Life
Meet the Tilcayo: The Tiny Cloud-Forest Cat That Became a New Species After a Decade as a Family Pet
The Ghost-White Coral That Cracked a Century-Old Deep-Sea Mystery
The Boneless Coral That Stood 10 Metres Tall: New Species Solves a 140-Year Mystery
Every Shell Tells the Same 540-Million-Year Story: Half of Nature's Best Ideas Came First
The Reef That Waited 60 Years: Benin's 'Dead' Coral City Found Alive and Full of Fish