Tides and Trails

I have a new favorite tidepool creature: skeleton shrimp. I know, I know. You're thinking, "Wait, Steve, your favorite new tidepool...

Amy and I headed out at dawn to Ecola Point with the goal of probing the low intertidal zone. We wanted to see some bizarre creatures....

Today I found my first gumboot chiton, Cryptochiton stelleri (aka the great Pacific chiton, the giant Pacific chiton, or the giant...

Some of the most colorful creatures in the world's oceans are sea slugs. Slugs? "Slug" doesn't do justice to nudibranchs. "Nudibranch"...

In many hours of searching the tidepools around Haystack Rock I've spotted a single leather star, Dermasterias imbricata, a lone survivor...

While explaining mole crabs to a man who worried he might be "stepping on baby sea turtles in the sand," I saw small shorebirds...

My latest favorite tidepool creatures: an isopod, a fish, and, wait for it . . . an arachnid. The red velvet mite has been adding vivid...

Have the tidelands been invaded by zombies? I've been seeing pale anemones in tidepools; I’ve also been reading about anemones expelling...

What do a cloud hovering over Haystack, a puffin perched on the rock's upper slope, and a barnacle at its base have in common? The word...

I'm on the hunt for the legendary blue dragon. This stunningly beautiful predator preys on the by-the-wind sailor, Velella velella, which...