A strikingly beautiful fish, it is not hard to see where the ‘red’ mullet gets its name from!

One of our largest soldier beetles, often found on flowers where they hunt other insects.

This small, white heron is an increasingly common sight in parts of the UK as it spreads north from continental Europe.

It’s easy to identify this distinctive skate from the black and yellow marbled eye spots on each wing.

The ocean sunfish is the second largest bony fish on the planet and visits UK seas during the summer months to feast on jellyfish.

Our only venomous snake, the shy adder can be spotted basking in the sunshine in woodland glades and on heathlands.

This brown seaweed lives in the lower shore and gets its name from the serrated edges to its fronds.

This colonial creature looks like an old-fashioned quill - that's where the name sea pen comes from.