This adorable sea lion has to eat five to eight percent of its body weight every day to stay healthy and hydrated. Over the ...

Glittery sea worms and sea squirts fit for The Lord of the Rings universe might sound like pure fantasy, but they’re very real creatures living in the deep sea. Some of these otherworldly ocean ...

Monitoring the populations of one of nature's slower creatures could become faster, thanks to the University of Georgia. UGA ...

The ocean is full of surprises, and scientists are still finding creatures that seem almost unreal. From tiny reef animals to bizarre deep-sea species, these discoveries show just how much of the ...

We’re all familiar with La Jolla’s sea lions, harbor seals, orcas, garibaldi and seabirds. But in this series of stories called Species of the Month, the Light sheds light on other, lesser-known ...

Scientists estimate more than 60 marine mammals may have been infected by the virus.

Scientists found a deep-sea creature with “massive eyes” in an underwater canyon and discovered a new species near Australia, a study said. Photo from CSIRO Thousands of feet below the surface of the ...

In a small, rented lab in the port of Los Angeles in May, Keith Matassa was working through a backlog of bodies on ice. Using a surgical knife, he carefully removed a California sea lion fetus from a ...