Discover what makes marine mammals unique and why they need our protection. California's coastal waters are home to some of nature’s most remarkable creatures - marine mammals like seals, dolphins, ...

The end of the Seaquarium is a turning point for Miami and the fight for marine mammal rights. The future home of the ...

Marine mammals will be the topic for the first Shoreline Education for Awareness wildlife interpretation training seminar on Jan. 15. In all, the group will offer eight seminars this year on coastal ...

When you think about a whale, you probably picture an enormous sea creature without legs. But what if I told you the first whale had four legs and could walk on land? I talked about whales and other ...

Their fur is so soft it almost led to their extinction, but otters’ recovery has been a boon to Pacific kelp forests, a key ...

New Jersey’s marine mammals are in the crosshairs. Already struggling under multiple assaults, they are facing another blow. Recent federal budget cuts and rule changes promise to dismantle critical ...

It's been a doozy of a year for marine mammals, who have been dying in record numbers along the California coast. Volunteer ...

In a small, rented lab in the port of Los Angeles in May, Keith Matassa was working through a backlog of bodies on ice. Using a surgical knife, he carefully removed a California sea lion fetus from a ...

Wildlife officials are warning the public of a toxic algae bloom affecting marine mammals along Los Angeles County beaches.

Huge die-offs of elephant seals occurred after the virus gained nearly 20 troublesome new mutations, scientists found. By Apoorva Mandavilli Elephant seals in South America died in massive numbers ...

Luciana Gallo of BIOMAR-CONICET and Marcela Uhart of UC Davis sample for highly pathogenic H5N1 among cormorants (by shore) and terns (in greenery) at Punta Leon in Argentina in November 2023. The ...

An injured sea lion lies in the surf in Davenport, Calif., north of Santa Cruz. (Nic Coury / For The Times) On a spit of sand 12 miles north of Santa Cruz, a small, emaciated sea lion lay on its side.