These marshes are also vital nurseries for marine species like shrimp, crabs, and various fish, providing both shelter and food. The nutrient-dense pluff mud supports the lush growth of Spartina ...

Getting stuck in the pluff mud is common. Calling the fire department to be rescued from it is not. The Murrells Inlet-Garden City Fire Department pulled a fisherman stranded on a personal pontoon ...

However, new research is observing that horseshoe crabs are nesting in the salt marsh too, piling their eggs into pluff mud where the eggs are seemingly safer from predators. Dr. Daniel Sasson is ...