Along some seventy plus miles of southern California coastline, usually curious and playful sea lions are attacking humans in ...

Driven mad by toxic chemicals released by algae flourishing in warming oceans, sea lions and other marine mammals are ...

A common neurotoxin produced by algae blooms is making California sea lions more aggressive. Here’s why it has the power to ...

In recent weeks, hundreds of sea lions, dolphins and other animals have turned up in the sand dead or seriously ill, alarming ...

There has been an “alarmingly high number” of sea lions and dolphins suffering from domoic acid poisoning found along the ...

Volunteers with the Channel Islands Marine & Wildlife Institute in Santa Barbara, California, rescue a sick sea lion that's ... cold water from deep in the Pacific Ocean rose to the surface ...

Since the beginning of March, the Pacific Marine Mammal Center has taken in an unusually high number of sick sea lions and ...

Phoebe Beltran, 15, was attacked by a sea lion in Long Beach, California, March 30, 2025, while swimming in the ocean. Courtesy Bibi Beltran She was assisted back to the shore and a lifeguard boat ...

Phoebe Beltran was in the homestretch of her 1,000-yard swim when she suddenly felt an intense pain as the sea lion bit her ...

The sea lion “erupted from the water ... The toxin, domoic acid, is naturally present in the Pacific Ocean. Now, a process called upwelling is responsible for pushing the acid into the aquatic ...