California beaches have been the site of some ghastly scenes this year. Dying sea lions, dolphins, seagulls, pelicans and even a minke whale have washed up on the sands from San Diego to Santa Barbara ...
After storms, beaches can suddenly fill with tiny blue discs fringed with tentacles — creatures many people assume are jellyfish. But new research suggests those eye-catching drifters, known as blue ...
Velella Velella, a small blue jellyfish-like creature, washing onshore at Baker Beach in San Francisco on April 28, 2026. SAN FRANCISCO - If you've been to Baker Beach in San Francisco this week, ...
A Bright Blue Creature on the Ocean Floor Looked So Unusual It Took Years to Confirm What It Was ...
Oregon beach covered in hundreds of blue Velella - Karen Images/Shutterstock Occasionally, Oregon's coast becomes bewilderingly alien with an unnaturally electric blue shore too vivid to be foam and ...