A Steller sea lion was seen lounging at Pier 39 on Friday morning, a rare visit from a near-threatened species whose usual ...

The sea lion species is listed as near-threatened by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature.

For visitors to Point Reyes National Seashore in California, seeing a rare tule elk is one of the highlights of any visit. Endemic to California, there are fewer than 6,000 of these majestic elk ...

Sea Lion Caves in Florence is that rare natural wonder where the journey down is just as mind-blowing as the destination, and ...

Pamela Anderson returned to her childhood home on Vancouver Island, part of her transition to a more authentic lifestyle. She ...

Twenty years on, relive the iconic scene from Sir David Attenborough's Planet Earth that changed our understanding of how ...

The Oregon coast is full of incredible sights, but Sea Lion Caves offers something you genuinely can’t find anywhere else: the largest sea cave in America, filled with wild sea lions, accessible by ...

Decades after its release into the wild, a super-ageing, bone-crunching vulture called Balthazar reveals a major conservation ...

British trainers Dan Skelton and Nicky Henderson will take on the might of the Irish at jump racing’s showcase event with the likes of The New Lion and Lulamba vying for a share of the ...

The ancient world holds secrets that continue to baffle archaeologists, historians, and curious minds today. From cities that ...

A hulking Steller sea lion turned San Francisco's Pier 39 into an instant wildlife spectacle yesterday, hauling out on K-Dock and drawing a steady stream of cameras and gawkers. With its pale, blocky ...

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