Record numbers of marine mammals are dying on the beaches of L.A. County — something experts suspect has to do with runoff ...

LaMendola called CIMWI about the incident. His experience off Oxnard Friday was the first aggressive sea lion reported to the ...

Domoic acid, a potent neurotoxin produced by algae, has been killing sea lions and dolphins along California’s coastline for ...

Levels of lead and other heavy metals spiked in L.A.'s coastal waters after the January fires, raising serious concerns for ...

Dolphins live and hunt in large social groups called pods, and they communicate with each other using high-pitched clicks and ...

Of the 407 animals the Marine Mammal Center responded to in 2024, 20% had been disturbed by people or dogs before being ...

The aquatic population is increasingly exposed to toxic compounds through food and the environment. A group of these toxic ...

“The material described herein was found during a freezer clean up: in a pudding of old ice and forgotten Eppendorf tubes, a ...

One surfer, according to CBS Local Los Angeles, was attacked on Friday by one such “feral, almost demonic” sea lion afflicted ...

Sensors attached to animals gather valuable data to track and mitigate the human influence on marine life. A Kobe University ...

Deceased common dolphins are being reported along the Central Coast. The deaths may be linked to a domoic acid outbreak in ...

Marine biologists say sea life off the SoCal coast is in danger of being wiped out, and they say more frequent toxic algae ...