I have no problem keeping track of how many times I have answered the phone at dawn to hear: “I just found my first sea hare! He just inked me!” The caller, my grandson Parker, was standing in the ...

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 ...

OAKLAND, Calif. (KGO) -- Giant purple blobs are invading East Bay beaches and waterways. They are not a danger to the people, but the slugs' big size is unusual. They are called sea hares and they can ...

In the 1960s, neuroscientist Eric Kandel began a series of experiments on the California brown sea hare, a species of sea slug that looks as though it were dropped into the ocean from outer space.

Alien sea creatures have been washing up on Australia beaches, baffling locals. A resident in Sutherland Shire in New South Wales found a slug-like life form lying on a beach and posted pictures to ...

The California brown sea hare has some of the biggest brain cells in the animal kingdom. The bacteria shewanella oneidensis can live with or without oxygen. What they share, beyond the possession of ...