If you’ve ever left the beach with a stinging or itching sensation, you may have received a sand flea bite. While humans aren’t actually the preferred food source for sand fleas—decaying organic ...

What can you see at the beach? Sunsets, crashing waves, shells, sea turtles… and fleas. And some of these sand fleas aren’t so harmless; outside of the U.S., one such insect is responsible for disease ...

If you’ve ever left the beach with a stinging or itching sensation, you may have received a sand flea bite. While humans aren’t actually the preferred food source for sand fleas—decaying organic ...

The most common type found in the U.S. aren’t actually fleas, but they might still take a bite out of your summer vacation plans. Having a little fun in the sun at the beach is often one of the best ...

In your delightful updates on the sand flea (April 14), I was reading along and had to wonder, do people eat the sand flea? Honestly, who would have ever looked at an oyster and decided to see how it ...

Sand fleas have a remarkable ability to change colour in order to match dramatically different backgrounds, according to a new study from the University of Exeter and the Ascension Island Government ...

The robotic geniuses at Boston Dynamics have done it again. The DARPA-backed brains behind the AlphaDog robot, and the world’s fastest four-legged robot (appropriately named “Cheetah”), have created ...

Sand fleas occupy the swash zone of sandy beaches where they are exposed to a range of visually-guided predators, including shorebirds and crabs. Now researchers have discovered that these fleas have ...