Weirdly, on this diving day, as I briefly hovered above the silty seafloor at about 60 feet deep, floating in the water before me was a tangled, gelatinous strand. Could it be a tentacle somehow lost by a jelly animal? I captured some images with...

This is supposed to be the Shores, not the Savannah. Nevertheless, the second week of June, I arrived to the beach at daybreak and saw what I thought was a snowy egret standing in front of the bathrooms. Odd that it wasn’t foraging at the shoreline...

What comes of a scientific cruise once researchers return to port? In my first article (Scripps research on biofuels motors close to home__Part 1), readers traveled with me on Scripps Institution of Oceanography’s R/V Sproul as I helped carry out...

There’s nothing like getting stabbed in the back, although for polyclad flatworms it’s one of the facts of life. Not just literally but figuratively, too, because stabbing is integral to the way they reproduce. Polyclads stab and get stabbed (called...