But aside from their culinary potential, seaweeds are chock-full of nutrition. “In a very small portion size, you can get ...

This week’s beachcombing survey brought in a fresh batch of sargassum washed ashore — and with it, some of the ocean’s most elusive hitchhikers: sargassum shrimp. These tiny crustaceans, often ...

Every Hebridean youth is a connoisseur of the edible properties of tangle; preference is usually shown for the root of the plant, as being sweeter than the stem. In China and Japan seaweed is ...

The sargassum swimming crab is a remarkable pelagic crustacean that thrives among the drifting mats of seaweed in the ...

South Florida's invasive sargassum seaweed has become a major problem, prompting some to ask if sargassum can be used as ...

When it comes to marine plants, none are more common than seaweed. Especially because many of the most well-known aquatic plants including sargassum, kelp, red algae and phytoplankton are all ...

“The seaweed on these bare rocks is very slippery,” says Jayson Byles, as he balances on boulders at Kingsbarns Beach near Fife, in eastern Scotland. The view is pleasant now that the rain has ...