The Ocean City Beach Patrol guards the resort’s beaches seven days a week from 10 a.m.-5:30 p.m. While on duty, they often get questions from beachgoers. The following is our Question of the Week.

Making his way along the slippery landscape of a local tide pool, Kasey Eunice hops from wet rock to wet rock. The world here, he explains, is as teeming as it is vibrant. Purple sea urchins sway with ...

Jaymi Heimbuch is a writer and photographer specializing in wildlife conservation, technology, and food. She is the author of "The Ethiopian Wolf: Hope at the Edge of Extinction." Tide pools are quite ...

Of all the remarkable things about tide pools, No. 1 on the list has to be this: Each visit offers an opportunity to observe something new. Will an octopus peek out from under a rock? Will warty sea ...

A yellow-edged cadlina, a type of nudibranch or sea slug, is seen laying on the bottom of a tide pool at Fitzgerald Marine Reserve on the San Mateo County coast during an exceptionally low tide on Dec ...

Tide pools (also tidal pools or rock pools) are rocky pools by the ocean that are filled with seawater. Tide pools can either be small and shallow or large and deep. The small ones are usually found ...

Rain was blowing sideways on the rocky shores of the central Oregon coast as Jamie Kish, clad in a rain jacket, leggings, and sandals with rainbow-striped socks, casually waded knee-deep through the ...

Rub shoulders with celebrities at this swanky California resort, beloved for its five-star spa, on-site restaurants, beach ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In Myrtle Beach, spending time at the beach usually means swimming in the ocean, laying in the sun or fishing. But if you know the ...