Southern California beachgoers have been warned to be wary around sea lions after a mass poisoning event has made some more aggressive and potentially dangerous to humans. A Ventura County surfer, RJ ...

A sea lion is carried to an enclosure at the Marine Mammal Care Center, where 140 of the sick mammals have been cared for during the current harmful algal bloom. Sea lions and other ocean mammals in ...

Magnificent underwater footage taken in Mexico by Philipp Moser shows a bunch of Striped Marlins swimming close to a swarm of tightly-packed bait fish. "Every Autumn in Magdalena Bay (especially ...

A toxic algae bloom is causing sea lions and other mammals and birds to become sick. Domoic acid toxicity is caused by ocean blooms of algae called Harmful Algal Blooms. The toxin causes neurological ...

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A man was arrested Tuesday morning after allegedly beating a sea lion suffering from domoic acid poisoning on Ventura Beach, according to authorities. Surveillance footage captured a man later ...

LOS ANGELES — Sea lions and other ocean mammals in Southern California are falling victim to a poisoning event that a local expert calls the worst in recent memory. It is stranding the mammals along ...

“She’s got this. She’s a swimmer in water polo, this is a walk in the park for her,” Bibi Beltran, 52, told her husband Sunday afternoon on March 30, as the pair watched their 15-year-old daughter ...

San Carlos Beach in Monterey typically hosts scenes of divers clad in wetsuits, people lazing on the grassy slopes and children splashing in the shallows. But if you have ventured down to the beach in ...

At least 14 sea lions were reported sick off the coast of Malibu due to toxins created by harmful algal blooms, according to the California Wildlife Center. Domoic acid is a neurotoxin produced by ...

Federal research and funding plays a crucial role in enabling scientists to monitor ocean conditions — including the domoic acid outbreak that is now killing hundreds of marine mammals up and down the ...