This week, the tides were back to normal after the hurricane in the Gulf, making for better access to the beaches. Among the beachcombing finds were sand dollars, sargassum and pumice stone. Pumice, a ...

If you’ve been walking the beaches this summer, you may have noticed sticky black blobs scattered along the shoreline. These are tar balls, and they’ve been washing up all season long. On my ...

The "ice cream cones" aren't the edible kind. They're tubes of worms washing up on the Texas coast.

Beachcombing along the Texas coast is always full of surprises, and this week was no exception. Over a 10-mile stretch of shoreline, I came across at least 10 pink meanie jellyfish, a rare and ...

Harte Research Institute at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi Director of Community Engagement Jace Tunnell has seen it all on Texas beaches. "The prosthetic leg was kind of the weirdest thing," he ...

About midway through the ride, something unusual appeared ahead of me, the unmistakable shape of a boat sitting where no boat ...

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — Beachcombing for seashells, sea glass and sand dollars is a popular hobby on the Texas coast. But Jace Tunnell is more interested in the weird stuff that washes up on area ...

If beachcombing had a highlight reel, 2025 would be the year the editors quit trying to narrow it down and just hit “play.” From bizarre sea life to mystery objects that broke the internet, this year ...