During the highest tides, California grunion leave their watery home to mate and lay their eggs on sandy beaches. How will their young make it back to the ocean? With summer just around the corner, ...

SAN PEDRO, Calif. — If the tide is high, the weather is warm, the clock is approaching midnight and the beach you’re standing on is in Southern California, it’s a given that romance is in the air — or ...

Here’s a bit of advice from grunion guru Jim Serpa: Don’t give up. “If they don’t run, wait an hour more. They almost always run early in the season,” said Serpa, a retired State Parks ranger who for ...

The wiggly fish get pushed up to the sand by waves for their moonlit spawning ritual, a spectacle that has long lured lookie-loos to the California coastline to get a glimpse at the unique sight.

"Grunion run" may sound like some sort of new 10K or theme park ride, but to friends of the marine world, it only means one thing: that fish -- fish! -- are coming ashore to do what comes naturally.