Disney Cruise Line’s seventh ship, the Disney Destiny, has officially launched. Like all Disney Cruise Line ships, the ...

This is the amazing moment a group of sea lions sunbathing on a pier in San Diego, California on June 22 were joined by their ...

It was a foggy October afternoon on the central California coast when the Marine Mammal Center got a call on their public ...

Wondrous kelp beds harbor a complex ecosystem that’s teeming with life, cleaning the water and the atmosphere, and bringing ...

The largest population of elephant seals in the world suffered massive mortality in 2023 from H5N1 bird flu infection. Animal experts fear for California's elephant seals.

When scientists compared what California sea lions eat in the Channel Islands (U.S.) and the Gulf of California (Mexico), they expected to find a clear explanation for why populations were booming in ...

On a narrow spit of sand north of Santa Cruz, a young sea lion was lying curled on its side, flippers pressing and releasing against its belly in a slow, painful rhythm. “That’s a classic sign of ...

With protection, many of California’s marine mammals — including whales, sea lions and seals — have made remarkable recoveries over the last half-century since bipartisan passage of the U.S. Marine ...

On a blue-sky afternoon, kayakers paddle past dozens of sea lions lolling in the sun and make a beeline toward the sea otters lounging on beds of eel grass at Elkhorn Slough on California’s central ...

Federal authorities are offering a $20,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of a man who was filmed decapitating a sea lion on a beach in Monterey County earlier this summer ...

The National Marine Fisheries Service is offering a whopping $20,000 for information on a burly man spotted sawing the head off a dead sea lion in California in late July — the second instance of ...