Babies!

Meet the newest members of the Aquarium family in the Babies! exhibit.

Experience the heartwarming joy of baby animals like rescued sea otters, cuttlefish that change color, tiny sea jellies, and little sharks. Plus, learn about our conservation programs that help endangered animals.

Come See Our Babies!

Sea otter pup swimming on its back looking at the camera

Credit: Aquarium of the Pacific/Robin Riggs

Yellow fish with black stripes and white spots

Banggai cardinalfish Credit: Aquarium of the Pacific/Andrew Reitsma

Brown and tan juvenile shark resting on pebbles

Brownbanded Bamboo Shark Credit: Charlotte Bleijenberg/istock.com

Desert Tortoise Credit: Aquarium of the Pacific/Robin Riggs

Orange fish with white and black stripes swimming near orange sea anemone

Clown Anemonefish Credit: FGorgun/istock.com

Yellow fish with pinkish blue background

Yellow Tang Credit: Aquarium of the Pacific/Robin Riggs

About the Exhibit

Sea Jelly Strobila Credit: Aquarium of the Pacific/Andrew Reitsma

In the Babies! exhibit area inside Pacific Visions on the second floor, visit the new Jelly Lab to learn how we grow baby jellies and see them at their different life cycle stages. Learn how different ocean habitats like coral reefs, mangroves, and seagrass beds serve as nurseries and see baby animals that live in these environments. Plus, meet our new baby sea otters in the Northern Pacific Gallery and learn how the Aquarium will help orphaned sea otter pups in our Sea Otter Surrogacy facility at the Molina Animal Care Center.

Yutaka the Giant Sea Bass Credit: Aquarium of the Pacific/Robin Riggs

Our new exhibit also highlights the Aquarium’s most notable animal births over the years as well as our amazing firsts. The Aquarium of the Pacific was the first in the world to successfully breed weedy seadragons and pharaoh’s cuttlefish, the first public aquarium to hatch and raise a juvenile giant sea bass, and the first to reproduce Beroe comb jellies. Experience these and other incredible stories of baby animals at the Aquarium this summer.