La Jolla’s tide pools were chosen as one of two statewide sites for the June 1 kickoff of the California Department of Fish and Wildlife’s month-long Snapshot Cal Coast initiative. Despite gray skies, ...

Even in the gray days of Oregon’s winter, vivid pops of color can be found on the Oregon coast. The rocky intertidal zone, commonly known as tide pools, is home to a rainbow of species – from orange ...

A yellow-edged cadlina, a type of nudibranch or sea slug, is seen laying on the bottom of a tide pool at Fitzgerald Marine Reserve on the San Mateo County coast during an exceptionally low tide on Dec ...

With Earth Day approaching, the following question takes on even more importance. We cannot celebrate the ocean’s recovery when in fact the situation has become more severe than ever, despite all ...

For the first time, a team of researchers at Stanford University and UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography has uncovered a direct genetic link between fluorescence and color in sea ...

On a foggy May morning in Sue-meg State Park on the California coast, about 25 miles north of Eureka, the tide has dropped to its lowest point of the year and revealed a vast expanse of rocky tide ...

Discovering a new species is always exciting, but so is finding one alive that everyone assumed had been lost to the passage of time. A small clam, previously known only from fossils, has recently ...