It is easy to be confused by these flower-like animals with flowery names! The ‘daisy’ anemone is one of the larger UK anemone species!

Native oysters are a staple of our seas and our plates - but our love of their taste has lead to a sharp decline all around the UK.

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

This well-camouflaged wader is a winter visitor to the UK, where it can be seen feeding on wetlands with a distinctive bobbing motion.

The bottlenose dolphins in our waters are the biggest of their kind – they need to be able to cope with our chilly waters!

Often confused with the larger but similarly shaped lion’s mane jellyfish, the blue jellyfish can be colourless when young and develop a striking blue-purple bell as it matures.

This stocky wader is mostly a winter visitor to the UK, where it can be found on rocky, seaweed-covered coasts, often with groups of turnstones.

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