Category: Tidepooling News
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Sea Trutle Nests In California for the First Time in Recorded History

Last week, for the first time in recorded California history, a sea turtle has nested on our beaches. While you might be accoustumed to seeing sea turtles while tidepooling and beachgoing in the tropics, seeing one on the shores of Calfifornia is rare, although they are sometimes spotted. In all my years tidepooling, I’ve only…
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Two New Species of Nudibranch Described from California

Unlike my last new species post (April Fools, if you didn’t notice the date ;), these two new species are real, and they live right off the coast where many of us tide pool: Doto urak and Doto kwakwak. Neither of these species in the Doto family are very common and only have a few…
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