Over the next seven years, the U.S. Navy estimates its ships will injure or kill just two whales in collisions as it tests ...

Each year, an estimated 24 billion pounds of plastic flow into the world’s oceans. What often looks like floating debris to ...

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 ...

SAN DIEGO – In 1959, the Navy stood up its Marine Mammal program here. With one dolphin, researchers set out to study how fast the creatures could swim, in an effort to improve ship and torpedo ...

Experts tracked the sea lion, which had a rope around its neck, for over a month before they were able to catch up to it in Cowichan Bay, Canada.

When a sea lion is found stranded anywhere between Long Beach and Malibu, chances are a volunteer with the Marine Mammal Care Center in San Pedro will play an important role in its rescue. The ...

Sea lions rest in a pen while being treated for domoic acid poisoning at The Marine Mammal Center in Sausalito. Giancarlo Rulli The Marine Mammal Center For the third consecutive summer at The Marine ...

Steller sea lions bask on rocks in the Gulf of Alaska on June 29, 2003, with the research vessel Tiglax sailing in the background. (Photo provided by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service) Encounters with ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Wildlife officials are warning the public of ...

Unlike most marine mammals, sea otters are primarily insulated by fur, not blubber. In fact they have the densest fur in the animal kingdom. Sadly that thick, resplendent coat has also given otters ...

Deep-sea mining trials revealed significant but localized biodiversity loss in one of the planet’s least explored ecosystems.

The report shows improvement related to deaths but continued hearing loss and other injuries from some exercises.