Scripps Institution of Oceanography

On Friday, the Birch Aquarium at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego finally revealed the name of one of its Little Blue Penguins after receiving nearly 2,500 votes for names.

“This is the holy grail.” That’s how Mike Silva, captain of the Nimbus, described his run-in with a pod of majestic orcas off the coast of San Diego on Wednesday.

Birch Aquarium at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego has 15 new feathered friends coming to the aquarium this summer. From now until May 8, 2022, at 5 p.m., Birch Aquarium is letting the public decide on one special penguin’s name.

The institute was officially founded in 1903 and since then has gathered, acquired and collected numerous specimens of 6,000 species of fish.

The institute was officially founded in 1903 and since then has gathered, acquired and collected numerous specimens of 6,000 species of fish

There are hundreds and hundreds of feet of shelves holding the collection, many of them in yellowing fluid, some as old as a sockeye salmon that was captured way back in 1886.

The coelacanth (sēləˌkanTH), three feet or so of prehistoric fish, was acquired back in the ’60s

The goblin shark is a fairly rarely encountered deep sea shark

The pitch-black fish was a female Himantolophus sagamius, which you’d recognize from “Finding Nemo” as the cave monster with a mouth full of teeth and a bioluminescent projectile from its forehead.

A rare pacific football fish washed ashore a San Diego beach, giving scientists the chance to study it.

Here’s what we learned about the species, and some of the many mysteries San Diego researchers are trying to solve.

Photos show a mouthful of glistening knife-sharp looking teeth, a projectile flowing out of its forehead and spikes bristling from its sides.

The creature was a Pacific footballfish, a type of deep-sea anglerfish made famous in ‘Finding Nemo’ that has a little bioluminescent light on top of its head that acts as a lure

A young boy who was boating with his father off the coast of Catalina Island was hospitalized following a shark bite Wednesday morning.

A couple of La Jolla’s most recognizable residents now have a new home and have even welcomed a little one thanks to a couple of locals’ grand idea that helped them create the nest.

When the SpaceX Dragon launches to the International Space Station this week for its second operational crew mission, an astronaut with ties to San Diego will be at the helm of the spacecraft.

Local surfer waved at a drone that was also video-recording a shark as it swam between her board and her boyfriend’s, reports NBC 7’s Joe Little.

Local surfer waved at a drone that was also video-recording a shark as it swam between her board and her boyfriend’s