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Author: Charmouth Heritage Coast Centre

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Unlike other crabs, the hermit crab doesn’t have a hard shell to protect itself. Instead it uses an empty sea snail shell, such as a winkle or whelk shell, as a home. Its two back legs have adapted into hooks so that it can anchor itself within the shell. As the crab grows it finds a bigger shell to move into.

Author: Charmouth Heritage Coast Centre

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Corkwing wrasse. These beautifully coloured fish are native to our shores. The wrasses are a family, Labridae, of marine fish, many of which are brightly coloured. The word wrasse comes via Cornish from the Welsh word gwrach meaning an old woman or hag. They are efficient carnivores, feeding on a wide range of small invertebrates. Many smaller wrasses follow the feeding trails of larger fish, picking up invertebrates disturbed by their passing.

Marine Life

Photos of marine life in Lyme Bay

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Author: Charmouth Heritage Coast Centre

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Huge waves crash over the sea wall leaving stones and tree trunks all over the car park.

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A beautiful rainbow next to Golden Cap, the highest point on the south coast of England.

Charmouth Coastline

Photos of Charmouth's coastline

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Author: Charmouth Heritage Coast Centre

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The Charmouth Heritage Coast Centre is situated on the Jurassic Coast, England’s first Natural World Heritage Site. Admission to the centre is FREE. The Centre provides information on fossils, fossil hunting and the local coastal and marine wildlife. Facilities at the centre include interactive computers, hands on displays, marine tanks and a video microscope, all of which can help you to discover more about our stretch of the coastline. You will always find a helpful warden or volunteer who can help you identify your fossil finds.

Charmouth Heritage Coast Centre

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Fossils

Photos of fossils

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