We’re all familiar with La Jolla’s sea lions, harbor seals, orcas, garibaldi and seabirds. But in this new series of stories called Species of the Month, the Light will shed light on other, ...

This week I found three mottled sea hares washed up along the high tide line. At first glance they looked like blobs of wet leather, but these strange drifters are actually large sea slugs, marine ...

A SLIMY black sea creature has washed up on a popular UK beach – leaving many wondering exactly what it could be. The “slug-like” animal was spotted by a dog walker at Traeth Treaddur Bay in Anglesey, ...

The La Jolla-based Scripps Institution of Oceanography is no stranger to getting calls from the public with questions about marine species found along local shores. Some callers wonder what something ...

A giant marine slug was found beached in Anglesey by a dogwalker, baffling some experts. The bizarre creature was later identified as a sea hare, a marine snail more commonly called a ‘sea slug’.