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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. More than 400 marine mammals have been reported stranded or sickened along California’s Central Coast since June.

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 ...

Sea otters are North America’s smallest marine mammal, weighing just 30 to 100 pounds, but their appetites are huge. They burn calories at three times the rate expected for their size, chomping on ...

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 ...

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

When a deadly virus that killed tens of thousands of European harbor seals in the northern Atlantic Ocean in 2002 began threatening sea lions, seals and otters in the northern Pacific Ocean, ...

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.