8 articles
The cabezon Scorpaenichthys marmoratus is the largest sculpin on the Pacific coast — an egg-guarding ambush predator of kelp reefs with famously toxic roe.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
Profile of the great sculpin — one of the largest sculpins of the North Pacific, its spiny head, ambush hunting and role in cold kelp-edge food webs.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
The grunt sculpin is a thumb-sized fish that walks on its fin rays, hides inside empty barnacle shells and, it seems, impersonates the barnacle itself.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
The staghorn sculpin cruises Pacific estuaries from Alaska to Baja, tolerates fresh water, and carries venomous antler-like spines on its head.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
Identify the coralline sculpin — the small California reef fish whose pink-and-grey skin lets it vanish against crusts of coralline algae.
Dr. Theo Nakamura ·
Profile of the buffalo sculpin — its jutting preopercular spines, reported venom, bright guarded egg masses and life in northeast Pacific kelp beds.
Dr. Mara Ellison ·
Meet the woolly sculpin, the little California tidepool fish that survives heat, rain-fresh water and hours in the air between tides.
Dr. Theo Nakamura ·
Meet the tidepool sculpin, the Pacific's toughest little fish: how it survives heat, low oxygen and hours out of water — and finds its way home.
Dr. Theo Nakamura ·