Unknown Artists of the Ocean
Tidepools along the Pacific Coast, and throughout the world, are painted with the vivid pink of coralline algae. This plantlike organism...
Stinging Christmas Trees
This “Christmas tree” attached to kelp that washed up on the beach is an animal colony known as a hydroid. Though they look like plants,...
Searching for Coral
I have yet to find orange cup coral in my backyard tidelands. I’ve wanted to see this colorful coral of the cold Pacific ever since I...
