You walk along the beach these days and it looks fairly empty compared to the summer; no more crowds, few dogs, even the wrack line is sparse. But here and there are clusters of washed up shells, ...

The Dog Whelk is a very common sea snail found in tide pools on rocky seashores all around the coast of Ireland. It is a meat-eater and feeds on barnacles, mussels and other marine life that it finds ...

In the course of looking up some other information, I came across an interesting tidbit about whelks. Whelks are predatory snails; there are many species, belonging to several genera, some of which ...