Many of the orcas captured and sent to marine theme parks in the 1960s and 1970s came from the Pacific Northwest. An incident 50 years ago this month changed that. A staffer in then-Washington ...

The sightings were the first reports of the animals in Santa Cruz since an outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza ...

The Marine Mammal Center received multiple reports of a northern elephant seal pup on two different Santa Cruz beaches ...

A fast-moving bird flu outbreak is devastating marine mammals, with massive losses reported across South America’s coasts.

It's far from clear if the weather is planning to cooperate, but spring arrives — technically, at least — Friday.

Climate change has caused massive problems for animals living in the Antarctic and sub-Antarctic. With ice sheets melting at ...

Well-trained students and scientists are the boots on the beach collecting the samples and observations needed to help a ...

When the H5N1 highly pathogenic avian influenza virus was discovered on a poultry farm in Asia in 1996, there was little ...

Over the long and complicated course of evolutionary history, mammals independently turned towards water to make a home ...

Elephant seals show one of the most extreme size differences between males and females in mammals. Large males compete ...