Along some seventy plus miles of southern California coastline, usually curious and playful sea lions are attacking humans in ...

Algae with domoic acid is sometimes called red tide, and biologists think runoff from the wildfires and ocean sediment ...

After being closed for renovations for nearly five months, the Southern Ocean County Animal Facility has officially reopened as of Friday. The Manahawkin shelter is resuming full operations, including ...

In 1962, when environmentalist and author Rachel Carson penned 'Silent Spring,' alerting the world to the dangers of the pesticide DDT, it was the reproductive threat to birds -- the bald eagle in ...

Krill is considered to be the largest animal biomass in the wild on Earth and is an important prey species for baleen whales and seabirds, making it a key species in the Antarctic marine ecosystem.

Southern elephant seals are the 'canary in the coal mine' for the Southern Ocean, offering insight into ... used to be "heaving" with the colossal animals. "At the time of human arrival in New ...

Dolphins, sea lions and seabirds are being found sick along beaches throughout Southern California, poisoned by an unseasonably early bloom of toxic algae.

Researchers at the Southern California Coastal Ocean Observing System are monitoring the bloom. Early reports said the animals were likely being affected in deeper, offshore waters, but monitoring ...