Thousands of strange sea creatures are blanketing Bay Area beaches
The jellyfishlike creatures, called Velella velella, emerged Sunday along Bolinas Beach in Marin County, a visitor told the ...
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Meet Some of the Strangest Deep-Sea Creatures, from ‘Sea Pigs’ to ‘Disco Worms’
A riotous photography collection from a recent underwater mission off the coast of Chile shows new and fascinating deep-sea ...
A Curious Mutation Is Letting Earth’s Deep-Sea Creatures Survive the Abyss
A new study analyzes the evolutionary history of 11 deep-sea species from environments stretching from the central Indian ...
California's sea lions aren’t really ‘demonic’—they’ve been poisoned
A common neurotoxin produced by algae blooms is making California sea lions more aggressive. Here’s why it has the power to change behavior—and the danger it poses.
Why Are Dolphins and Sea Lions Washing Up Dead on Southern California Beaches?
In recent weeks, hundreds of sea lions, dolphins and other animals have turned up in the sand dead or seriously ill, alarming ...
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Underwater Tool Use: These Rainbow-Colored Fish Smash Shells With Rocks
Off the coast of Brazil, a scuba diver captured something remarkable on video: a wrasse fish gripped a mollusk in its mouth, ...
‘Feral, almost demonic’: Surge in poisoned sea lions threatens SoCal beachgoers, burdens rescuers
Domoic acid poisoning is stranding marine mammals as warnings are issued to beachgoers of the threat posed by animals that ...
Mechanics of bioluminescence in rare Red Sea fish revealed
Evolving roughly 27 different times in the long history of fish, bioluminescence—the biological production of light—is one of ...
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The Blobfish: Ugliest animal voted New Zealand's 'fish of the year'
The blobfish, the world's ugliest animal, has been voted New Zealand's fish of the year. The creature grows to about 12 ...