These distinctive beetles are often found around dead birds and small mammals.

The whinchat is a summer visitor to UK heathlands, moorlands and open meadows. It looks similar to the stonechat, but is lighter in colour and has a distinctive pale eyestripe.

The yellow flower heads of common ragwort are highly attractive to bees and other insects, including the cinnabar moth.

The common squid is a weird and wonderful predator found all around our coasts.

The ragworm is highly common on our shores, though rarely seen except by the fishermen that dig them up for bait.

This brown seaweed lives high up on rocky shores, just below the high water mark. Its blades are usually twisted, giving it the name Spiral Wrack.

Great scallops are found around much of the UK and are a favourite seafood for people and starfish alike!

The bloody henry starfish is normally a bright purply-red colour and is found all around the UK.

The brown shrimp blends perfectly with its seabed home and is found all around the coasts of the UK.

Found on rocky shores around the UK, Chitons are a kind of mollusc identifiable by their characteristic coat-of-mail shells.

This large burrowing bivalve is found on sandy seabeds around much of the UK. It is the longest-lived animal known to man, with one individual found to be 507 years old!