Deep Look
These Acrobatic Beach Hoppers Shred All Night Long
2021 • E3 Feb 8, 2021 4m
As the sun sets, hordes of tiny crustaceans called beach hoppers –– also known as sand hoppers –– emerge from underground burrows to frolic and feast. They eat so much decaying seaweed and other beach wrack that by morning all that’s left are ghostly outlines in the sand.