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

This sooty-black, day-flying moth is active on sunny days, rarely settling in one place for long.

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.

The Bird's-nest orchid gets its name from its nest-like tangle of roots. Unlike other green plants, it doesn’t get its energy from sunlight. Instead, it grows as a parasite on tree roots, so…