This brown seaweed lives high up on rocky shores, just below the high water mark. Its blades are usually twisted, giving it the name Spiral Wrack.

This purply-brown seaweed is a common feature on our rocky shores and on our dinner plates.

The UK is home to so many incredible sea slugs, like this elegant nudibranch.

The Yew is a well-known tree of churchyards, but also grows wild on chalky soils. Yew trees can live for hundreds of years, turning into a maze of hollow wood and fallen trunks beneath dense…

The herring gull is the typical 'seagull' of our seaside resorts, though our coastal populations have declined in recent decades.

A small, but feisty scavenger, this carnivorous sea snail does not let anything go to waste!

This small sea snail is easily identifiable by the 3 brown spots on the top of its shell.

Sand eels are a hugely important part of our marine ecosystem. In fact, the fledgling success of our breeding seabirds entirely depends on them.