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 ...

PANAMA CITY BEACH — It looks like an oversized winged aquatic slug, and not a very pretty one at that. This season, beachgoers have been catching them at what seems to be higher-than-average rates ...

While they’re common in the Laguna Madre these “pretty cool” sea hares aren’t seen every day by beachgoers or anglers. That’s because they look like piles of wet sand — except they’re jiggly, can ...

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 ...

Sea hares, Aplysia californica, have a diversity of anti-predatory defenses. One is an actively released chemical defense: an ink secretion that is a mixture of two glandular products—ink from the ink ...

Ever seen this slimy-looking thing before at the beach? Many of these sea creatures have been spotted recently along the Florida coast. "Essentially they're like a snail without a shell," Dr. Zack Jud ...

A snorkeler was left in shock when she came face-to-face with an unusual sea creature while swimming in the blue waters around Mexico. Susan Aide Morales Cruz has been documenting marine life around ...

The creature is a black sea hare, and, shortly after being scooped up from a tide pool near the institute, it showed two signs of comfortably settling in: devouring large amounts of algae, its only ...

The two rows of frills on a white-speckled sea hare’s back line its hidden shell. I didn’t say the opposite sex of their own species because sea hares don’t have that bother. They’re hermaphrodites, ...

SANIBEL, Fla. (WFLA) — Southwest Florida beachgoers have noticed an unusual sea creature swimming by to their boats and washing up from the Gulf of Mexico. “It looks like a cross between a jellyfish ...

PANAMA CITY BEACH — It looks like an oversized winged aquatic slug, and not a very pretty one at that. This season, beachgoers have been catching them at what seems to be higher-than-average rates ...