Roarke Brown, a charter boat captain since 1972 in this picturesque fishing village, remembers being able to tread out onto the Kachemak Bay mud flats at low tide to fill a 5-gallon bucket with clams ...

The Monterey Bay Aquarium in Monterey, California, raised a whopping $2.2 million this week in a fundraiser for its sea otter ...

Earth's waters host diverse mammals like dolphins, whales, and manatees. These creatures possess unique adaptations for ...

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

Although every species on the planet somehow plays a role in maintaining the ecosystem, there are some species whose absence ...

California's coast is grappling with a severe leptospirosis outbreak, decimating sea lion populations. Hundreds are stranding ...

IT’S not a pretty job, but shovelling s**t is what Charlie Forsyth and his fellow keepers have to do every morning before ...

The epigenetic clock measures biological age and could help scientists assess the health of polar bears, dolphins, baboons ...

The Hillswick Wildlife Sanctuary said that they received a call from a worker on the Noble Patriot oil rig, northeast of Shetland, after the bird had landed in a “state of exhaustion”. The short-eared ...

Two years after Otter 841 menaced wave riders near Santa Cruz, there have been new encounters between the furry marine ...

A sea otter in Santa Cruz, California, is known for harassing surfers and stealing their surfboards.

A Silicon Valley-based nonprofit has raised about $1.4 million of its $40-million target to protect California coastal sea ...