9 articles
The black croaker drums after dark in Southern California's kelp beds. How to identify Cheilotrema saturnum, where to find it, and why it sings.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
How the kelp perch spends its whole life inside the kelp canopy — feeding, cleaning larger fish and raising live-born young — and what canopy loss means for it.
Dr. Theo Nakamura ·
Pacific bonito turn the water beyond the kelp to chrome in warm years. Identification, behaviour, the El Niño connection, and where divers meet these speedsters.
Tom Okafor ·
Meet the striped seaperch, a live-bearing surfperch of Pacific kelp beds — and a close look at how viviparity works in a fish that births on the reef.
Dr. Theo Nakamura ·
Meet the striped surfperch (Embiotoca lateralis), the copper-striped, blue-flecked surfperch of rocky shores and kelp beds from Alaska to Baja California.
Tom Okafor ·
Meet the kelp perch, a live-bearing surfperch that hovers in the kelp canopy, sips drifting plankton and picks parasites straight off larger fish.
Tom Okafor ·
Meet the tubesnout, the matchstick-slim schooler of Pacific kelp canopies — a stickleback relative that nests on kelp and feeds half the birds.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
Meet the bay pipefish, the Pacific coast's eelgrass mimic — a seahorse relative that hunts like a drifting grass blade from Alaska to Baja.
Dr. Theo Nakamura ·
Meet the high cockscomb, a crested prickleback living under rocks from Alaska to California — an intertidal survivor with a breeding male's comb.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·