The 19th Annual International Sea Bean Symposium was held on 17 & 18 October 2014 in Cocoa Beach, Florida. While I am interested in sea beans, properly called drift seeds which are seeds from tropical plants from the jungles of South America that wash down to the sea and drift thousands of miles to eventually wash up on Northern Hemisphere beaches, I was delighted to find that Ocypode quadrata, the lowly Ghost Crab, was represented by the amazingly lifelike fossilized […]

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