First responders rushed to West Cliff Drive around dusk Wednesday after receiving reports of a surfer in distress due to a ...

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It might be among the first mammals to go extinct in North America after colonization. But can scientists prove it was even a distinct species?

A deadly leptospirosis outbreak is killing sea lions along California’s coast, alarming scientists and volunteers racing to ...

More than 70,000 students are expected to take advantage of Mote SEA educational opportunities annually.

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Rebecca Vega Thurber, University of California, Santa Barbara (THE CONVERSATION) ...

Before 2013, divers on North America's west coast rarely saw purple sea urchins. The spiky animals, which are voracious kelp eaters, were a favorite food of the coast's iconic sunflower sea stars. The ...

At its roots, The American Southwest, from Fin and Fur Films, is a natural history documentary. “I’m a wildlife guy,” says ...

If Manly Hardy knew one thing, it was mink. Born in 1832 in Hampden, Maine, Hardy inherited his father’s fur trading business and spent much of his life trapping the fur-bearing mammals along the ...

Two years after Otter 841 menaced wave riders near Santa Cruz, there have been new encounters between the furry marine ...