a designated dog beach. The animals gain their toxicity from their diet of toxic red and green algae. Sea hares are generally harmless to humans, though people are advised not to rub their eyes or ...

that have coincided with life cycle behaviours of the sea hares, where they have washed onto the beach and died." "There have been occurrences of very high levels of mortality, with the last one ...

Second, sea hares from Washington State to California's Morro Bay are part of a single, well-mixed genetic population, defying expectations about their limited dispersal ability. Despite having no ...

In the 1960s, neuroscientist Eric Kandel began a series of experiments on the California brown sea hare, a species of sea slug that looks as though it were dropped into the ocean from outer space.

The study, "Variation in thermal tolerance plasticity and the costs of heat exposure in the estuarine sea hare, Phyllaplysia taylori," published on February 25, 2025 in Ecosphere, reveals that ...