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

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

The glow-worm is not actually a worm, but a beetle. Males look like typical beetles, but the nightly glow of a female is unmistakeable - lighting up to attract a mate in the darkness of their…

Despite its name, the great spider crab is actually smaller than the more common European spider crab.

The lightbulb sea squirt is common around much of the UK. Its easy to see where its name came from!

As the name suggests, this beautiful brown butterfly is most common in Scotland, though it can also be seen in northern England.

This bumpy shell lives up to its name and lives partly buried in the seabed along the west coast of Great Britain.

Found on rocky shores and seabeds, the Keyhole limpet gets its name from the little hole at the tip of its shell.

The spiny spider crab lives up to its name in every way! Their distinctive spiny shells are often found washed up on beaches.

The puss moth is a large and fluffy moth, with a very strange looking caterpillar.

Look out for this large, leafy lichen on trees in ancient woodlands in the west of the UK.