The Natural History of Bodega Head

    Well, the waves were on the larger side today (10-12 foot west swell), but we picked a safe spot and went out for a little holiday tidep...

    Okay, so this post is a follow-up to last night's photo.  This shrimp is a master of camouflage, but here are a couple of photos (ab...

    Can you find the shrimp? More info tomorrow night!

    What a cool shrimp!  Such amazing camouflage, matching all of the colors in the sand grains -- white, brown, gray, black, green, and ora...

    One of the most impressive features of many animals in the intertidal zone is the way their color patterns match their surroundings.  It...

    Eric had good luck with spotting interesting shrimp last night (25 November 2022).  Here's another one -- with red/maroon background...

    So cool!  Eric photographed this shrimp in the low intertidal zone tonight (25 November 2022).  We think it might be a species of Heptac...

    Looking around in the low intertidal zone in Monterey County this week, I peeked over a rock to see these striking striped shrimp.  Beau...

If you're a resident shrimp in a tidepool filled with hungry sculpins, you might find it advantageous to be invisible.  So how do you be...

  I need to learn more about shrimp.  There sure are some beauties along our coast!  

We're back late again from doing surveys in the rocky intertidal zone, but here's one quick shot from tonight (25 November 2018).  ...

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...

Here's a fun mystery close-up — an extreme view taken through a microscope.  Can you guess what type of animal this might be?     ...

Tonight's post starts with a fun video.  Check out these wonderful sequences of a Twistclaw Pistol Shrimp ( Alpheus clamator ) that Eric...