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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 sea slug Aplysia californica is a slimy, homely creature that can be found at low tide along the California shore. When this creature feels threatened in its underwater habitat, it releases a ...

Take an otherwise obscure and seemingly off-the-beaten-path collection of organisms collectively described as sea slugs (nudibranchs, bubble-shells, sea hares, and related organisms), link them to a ...

People are used to seeing seaweed and shells wash ashore at Coronado Dog Beach, but not the strange creatures that look like organs. We found some people poking at the creatures with sticks Tuesday ...

Like many other marine creatures, Aplysia, a common sea slug, enlists chemical defenses against its predators, but the mechanisms by which such chemical attacks actually work against their intended ...