The untrained eye might not have spotted it at all: this sea slug, a nudibranch in the genus Doto, was a few millimeters long ...

Parenting is no joke for our local western snowy plovers. First there’s finding real estate on the San Francisco ...

Nestled in the scenic Marin Headlands is the world’s largest marine mammal hospital, The Marine Mammal Center. Come join Marine Science Sunday, a free and interactive marine science event for all ages ...

"These waves are Valkyries fans!" commented @marcyhelm on Instagram (meaning the hot new Bay Area women's basketball team, not the opera). Jacqueline Quale Prince might have been inspired by a beach ...

Wildlife are drawn to the blooms and berries in Susan and Bill Teefy's native garden in Castro Valley. Elijah Nouvelage / EBMUD When Kathy Kramer first moved to the East Bay from Los Angeles, she ...

Did you know that you an find an echo of the spin of the planet in the sails of the by-the-wind sailors that wash ashore in spring and early summer?

Today, looking west from Brickyard, glitters San Francisco. (Photo by Kelly Sullivan / Berkeleyside) You might think the story of Brickyard Cove, the gleaming new public park at the Berkeley ...

Among life’s small, durable joys is the discovery of a bird’s nest: perhaps in the shape of a bowl, woven from grasses and stems with a skill that seems inexplicable. How could a creature with such a ...

State Route 12 cut to the horizon line of Solano County. Somewhere out of sight lay the small town of Rio Vista and the Delta. But about an hour northeast of San Francisco, midway through southern ...

From creeping slime molds to brain-eating ciliates to kelp, protists may be the strangest and most misunderstood group of creatures in the tree of life. Haeckel pointed out the troublesome task of ...

Lupines bloom on the Adler Ranch in Big Sur, which Western Rivers Conservancy acquired and gave to the Esselen Tribe of Monterey County nonprofit in 2020. (Photo by Doug Steakley, courtesy Western ...