A pair of snails sits on a fingertip. The snail, Lacuna vincta, is a common pest on kelp farms. Credit: Courtesy of Cara Blaine Maine researchers are on the lookout this winter for a tiny snail that ...

COPENHAGEN — “Sea snail broth,” a server says, introducing the first course of a dinner for which I’ve just traveled 4,000 miles to try. The initial impression is a warm and wonderful elixir pooled ...

The unique underwater kelp forests that line the Pacific Coast support a varied ecosystem that was thought to have evolved along with the kelp over the past 14 million years. But a new study shows ...

Fossils of kelp along the Pacific Coast are rare. Until now, the oldest fossil dated from 14 million years ago, leading to the view that today's denizens of the kelp forest -- marine mammals, urchins, ...

Many people have never eaten—or even heard of—red abalone, a species of sea snail that lives suctioned onto boulders and feeds on the lush kelp forests of Northern California. Abalone is a much-sought ...

“We all begin with seaweed blindness,” Roushanna Gray tells us, peering over the vast kelp forests of Cape Town’s False Bay from the shore. To the average beach-goer, the many varieties of seaweed are ...

PACIFIC GROVE – The bull kelp forests of the Pacific Coast began to decline in 2013. A perfect storm of events —a climate-induced marine heatwave, a strong El Niño season and the explosion in ...

The coastal waters of northern California were once home to undulating forests of bull kelp, a type of seaweed that offers shelter to a host of sea creatures. But a series of adverse ecological events ...

Kelp forests are the marine mirror images to the towering redwoods onshore, the scaffolding that supports the image of the classic northern California coastline. But these oceanic forests are ...