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.

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

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

Swan Hellenic is raising the bar for polar exploration with a one‑of‑a‑kind 32‑night Grand Voyage from Ushuaia to Dunedin.

More than two dozen elephant seals have tested positive for avian influenza since the outbreak at Año Nuevo State Park on the ...

The warming world has disrupted the timing for plant and animal reproduction, and it's usually bad news for species that depend on each other — like flowers blooming too early and pollinating bees ...

Discover the neural similarities of seals to particularly vocal birds and even humans, suggesting the foundations of speech ...

The avian flu outbreak is infecting more marine mammal species off the San Mateo County coast. Experts first spotted the disease among an elephant seal population last month. Now we know a southern ...