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The 43-year-old said he was a member of a gang at the time of the murders.

The 43-year-old said he was a member of a gang at the time of the murders.

Jon Gorey - Globe Correspondent February 23, 2021 3:09 pm A severe housing shortage in Thailand last fall sent local officials scrambling to boost the supply of waterfront property. But it wasn’t more beachfront condos they needed — it was seashells. A newly thriving hermit crab population around Koh Lanta National Park meant there were more of the crustaceans on the beaches than shells for the crabs to live in. And without the protection of a shell, the crabs can’t survive. So the Thai government solicited and received donations of empty shells from around the world, which they...

FIELD GUIDE Here’s looking at you: In the woods — or in your backyard — you might see a barred owl this winter By Don Lyman Globe Correspondent,Updated January 7, 2021, 6:40 p.m. Email to a Friend A barred owl foraging on the forest floor of Franklin Park Wilderness became startled and flew into a tree.Stephen H. Baird A few years ago while walking in the woods on a winter day in the Middlesex Fells Reservation, a few miles north of Boston, I stopped and looked around. In the fading light of late afternoon, about 30 feet away, I saw a pair of big, dark eyes in a large, round, g...