The Natural History of Bodega Head

    ...in a shell!   Two close-ups of the inside of an abalone shell.   I thought the first one (above) looked like an aurora, while the sec...

      Close-up of a Red Abalone ( Haliotus rufescens ) shell, 9 September 2025 ADDENDUM (12 September 2025) : There were a couple of request...

     The eye of an abalone (the dark spot at the base of the tentacle).   What do they see?  ADDENDUM (9 July 2024): P.S.  I've received...

    So cool!  This is a female Ochre Sea Star ( Pisaster ochraceus ) spawning. We had to work a little late tonight, but it paid off because...

Not much time tonight...we just got home from a class field trip to Monterey.  But here's a quick image from a beach in Pacific Grove to...

On 7 and 8 December 2017, I showed two mystery photos:     If you guessed that this is a type of crustacean (i.e., the group t...