A yellow-edged cadlina, a type of nudibranch or sea slug, is seen laying on the bottom of a tide pool at Fitzgerald Marine Reserve on the San Mateo County coast during an exceptionally low tide on Dec ...

Beachgoers in La Jolla, California were surprised to see a Spanish shawl nudibranch, a vibrant sea slug with purple and ...

If you are the curious type that likes to hop over tide pools and investigate puka, why not pause for a moment and take a deeper look into what you may find. There are many living animals you may not ...

A minus tide is an extraordinary event. It occurs when the ocean retreats to extremely low levels along the shore. Exposing areas that are normally inundated by water, a minus tide pulls back the ...

Rain was blowing sideways on the rocky shores of the central Oregon coast as Jamie Kish, clad in a rain jacket, leggings, and sandals with rainbow-striped socks, casually waded knee-deep through the ...

Very low tides, along with increasingly early sunrises, are expected on the North Olympic Peninsula beginning Monday. It all adds up to a week of opportunity for tide-poolers. Spring minus tides — ...

Of all the remarkable things about tide pools, No. 1 on the list has to be this: Each visit offers an opportunity to observe something new. Will an octopus peek out from under a rock? Will warty sea ...

The shrieks of delight from the pint-sized explorer were louder than the surf sweeping over the jagged rocks of La Jolla. And it was pure delight. The little guy was enjoying a new world that is only ...

Tide pools rank among some of my very favorite places on the Oregon coast. I love the primordial pools at Sunset Bay, the rocky pockets around Yachats, the wild beauty at the base of Haystack Rock.

The tide is heading out and the sandy stretch of beach and tide pools are exposed. Kéet, my border collie, bounds along beside me. Up the beach, near the short trailhead, my dad sits on a log. I walk ...