Living Seas Gallery: Birch Aquarium’s new exhibit keeps pace with changing ocean
“Look! It’s Nemo!” squeals a little dark-haired girl as she peers through the aquarium glass and follows the meanderings of a small orange, black and...
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Shark Summer returns to Birch Aquarium at Scripps
SAN DIEGO — Shark Summer returns to the Birch Aquarium, allowing guests to interact with sharks and rays while learning about the vital role they...
Birch Aquarium welcomes five Little Blue Penguin chicks this year
SAN DIEGO — The Birch Aquarium at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego has hatched five Little Blue Penguin chicks this season, the...
‘Hold Fast’: Birch exhibit explores kelp amid changing climate
Artists and scientists present a new way to think about the large brown algae we often call seaweed. ...
Birch Aquarium debuts exhibit celebrating giant kelp ecosystems
SAN DIEGO – The Birch Aquarium at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego has opened “Hold Fast,” an immersive art exhibit that invites...
Travel mistakes, cruise tips, tidepools and killer whales!
I took my first airplane flight at age 4. (Let’s just say it was sometime in the last millennium.) My parents and three siblings (later...
Fall fun in California
Autumn in California brings fall color, cooler nights, the grape harvest and plenty of seasonal festivals....
Summer fun in our own backyard
Visitors to our area spend thousands of dollars to travel here and stay, so check out why they are coming to Southern California....
Rare pregnant seadragon at Birch
SAN DIEGO — A female Weedy Seadragon has transferred eggs to a male at the Birch Aquarium at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San...
Birch Aquarium Little Blue Penguin dies
Birch Aquarium is saddened to announce that a Little Blue Penguin, Magic, has died. Magic had been battling aspergillosis, a fungal infection, for several weeks,...
Little Blue Penguins head for Cincinnati
LA JOLLA — A few months after arriving at the Birch Aquarium from Australia, five of the 15 Little Blue Penguins have been moved 2,000...
Little blue penguins swimming with personality at Birch Aquarium
What’s 12 inches high, has 10,000 feathers and turns blue in the water? The answer is a little blue penguin, and 15 of these nuthin’-but-cute...
Birch Aquarium set to welcome world’s smallest penguins in new exhibit
SAN DIEGO — Aquarium-goers will be able to see the world’s smallest penguins when the Birch Aquarium at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San...
Travel plans changed? There’s plenty to do in San Diego County
Happy New Year. Since this is my first column of 2022, I feel as though I should talk about grand plans to visit faraway places,...