Sea slugs travel first class on the Tsunami Express

Reporting by Robert Kokenyesi, Ceramic Artist, Beachfront Pottery, Godfrey, IL 62035, USA. The published news article Sea slugs have been one of my favorite sea critters for many years.  Their streamlined bodies, the delicate tentacles, and the strikingly intense coloration caught my eye when I was looking at websites o ocean critters.  Because sea slugs Read More…

An eel with a spoon nose. Riiight!

Reporting by Robert Kokenyesi, Ceramic Artist, Beachfront Pottery, Godfrey, IL 62035, USA I have written about weird ocean creatures showing up on beaches.  Sort of makes sense that the higher tides, and the intense churning of the ocean during Hurricane Harvey killed and then deposited many sea critters onto beaches of Texas.  This creature was Read More…

Blobs and sea squirts and larvae, oh my!!!

Reported by Robert Kokenyesi, Ceramic Artist, Beachfront Pottery, Godfrey, IL, 62035, USA. When you live on the coast you just never know when you’ll run into something news worthy.  How about the discovery (or re-discovery) of floating blobs in the ocean near Monterey Bay.  The national Geographic Magazine wrote about this, and below you can Read More…

How can a shark be also a water bunny? Just read on!

Report by Robert Kokenyesi, Ceramic Artist, Beachfront Pottery, Godfrey, IL 62035, USA. OK, so animals and plants can get many names as people at different locales call the by different names. Not sure why one group of sharks got actually three very different sounding names.  Perhaps, because they are rarely seen or caught, and each Read More…