Photos & story by Seaside Aquarium A longnosed lancetfish washed ashore on Seaside beach yesterday. Check out what we found inside of its stomach! Resembling a barracuda, this is one fish you…
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Welcome the Puffins Back to Haystack Rock Sunday April 13; Puffins Return …
Haystack Rock Awareness Program & Friends of Haystack Rock What: Welcome the Puffins Celebration When: Sunday, April 13th, 2025 Where: Haystack Rock, Cannon Beach, Oregon The Haystack Rock Awareness Program is happy…
Elephant Seal Resting on Seaside Beach April 1st … Friendly reminder for beach goers to “share the shore”, give resting marine mammals plenty of space
Story, Photos & Video by Tiffany Boothe, Seaside Aquarium This morning, April 1st (no, this is not an April Fool’s joke) a young elephant seal was found lounging in the sun on…
SEASIDE AQUARIUM: What’s that on the beach? Sea Pickles, Lingcod Eggs & More…
EDITOR’S NOTE: We’ve been seeing lots of photos of “sea pickles” on community pages that folks are coming across on their beach walks. Here’s a great overview of various invertebrates you might…
SEASIDE AQUARIUM RESPONDS TO REPORT OF OLIVE RIDLEY TURTLE ON SUNSET BEACH DEC. 30th
(From Seaside Aquarium’s Facebook page 12/31/24) Seaside Aquarium was alerted yesterday afternoon, December 30, 2024 of a sea turtle on Sunset Beach near Fort Stevens State Park. Unfortunately, the 40-pound olive ridley…
Feed the Seals, Feed the Community
Seaside Aquarium is ready to kick off the holiday season with the “Feed the Seals, Feed the Community” annual food drive! For 35 years the Seaside Aquarium has been working with the…
SEASIDE AQUARIUM: It’s Turtle Stranding Season … Olive Ridley Comes Ashore in Gearhart Monday Nov. 18
Early Monday evening, November 18th, we (Seaside Aquarium) got a report of a live sea turtle on Gearhart Beach in Oregon. Staff quickly geared up and were able to pick up the…
SEASIDE AQUARIUM RECOVERS BLUE SHARK WASHED ASHORE FOR FUTURE LEARNING EXPERIENCE
This afternoon, November 5, 2024, Seaside Aquarium received a report that a small shark with a long tail had washed ashore near Ave. U in Seaside. Turns out this beautiful shark was…
SEASIDE AQUARIUM EXPLORES OCEAN BURP
This week we got the privilege of exploring an ocean burp over by Ave. U in Seaside. These small debris fields are usually composed of small bark chips, shells, large tubeworm casings,…
SEASIDE AQUARIUM: Why are there so many jellyfish washing up on beaches?
By Seaside Aquarium Large jellyfish have been washing ashore causing a lot of people to ask why? The answer is simple yet complicated. This simple answer is that this happens every year…