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 ...

In the 1960s, neuroscientist Eric Kandel began a series of experiments on the California brown sea hare, a species of sea slug that looks as though it were dropped into the ocean from outer space.

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 ...

OAKLAND, Calif. (KGO) -- Giant purple blobs are invading East Bay beaches and waterways. They are not a danger to the people, but the slugs' big size is unusual. They are called sea hares and they can ...

This week I found three mottled sea hares washed up along the high tide line. At first glance they looked like blobs of wet leather, but these strange drifters are actually large sea slugs, marine ...