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

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

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

The giant sea stars, recognizable for their many arms, kept the urchin population in check, with the help of sea otters, lobsters and some large ... from the sea by hand and then moving them to ...

(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 ...

More instances of sea otters interacting with surfers were reported in Santa Cruz, a day after a similar instance.