The Natural History of Bodega Head

    I was at the Spud Point Marina docks briefly this afternoon and noticed lots of schools of what look to be young Northern Anchovies ( En...

  A beautiful White-spotted Anemone ( Urticina lofotensis , formerly Tealia lofotensis ) discovered nestled among mussels during a fiel...

Here's a close-up mystery photo for you.  Can you tell what type of animal this is?  (The answer is below the photo.)   These are...

  Wow is right! Here's another view:   And another (the branching digestive gland is visible within the cerata co...

Tonight I was simply going to share a nice photo of a juvenile Short-spined Sea Star (Pisaster brevispinus) :   And a photo of an adu...

  A couple of weeks ago, Jason and Matt mentioned they'd been seeing these nudibranchs at the Spud Point Marina docks.  I've be...