Scientists from the California Academy of Sciences described 72 new species last year, from elegant birds to strange sea ...

Researchers at the California Academy of Sciences kept busy throughout 2025. Along with collaborators from across the globe, ...

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 ...

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, ...

These bright pink sea slugs get their color from the rose-colored encrusting byrozoans on which they feed. (Photo by Jeff Goddard) Scientists have reported densities of up to dozens of nudibranchs per ...

MONTEREY, Calif. — More than two decades after spotting a mysterious, gelatinous, bioluminescent creature swimming in the deep sea, California researchers have announced that it is a new species of ...

It could be the plot of a summer sci-fi blockbuster: A creature feeds on its prey and inherits its "superpower." Only this is real. A new study led by Harvard biologists describes how some sea slugs ...

Unlike their shelled relatives, which can tuck in and hide from predators and environmental factors, sea slugs are just out ...