And the Mammal Center is hoping outreach can change behaviors. The strongest advice is to stay at least 50 yards away from any marine animal, roughly the distance of three school buses, end to end.

The Marine Mammal Center discovered the harmful algae bloom in 1998, ... Rulli opens a chart and reads. "So this one here is Tati. He's in IE6, which is in our intensive quarantine area.

Sam Gattlin discovered the marine mammal center soon after moving to San Pedro from the U.K. Now, he comes by after work once a week to help clean up after the third feeding of the day.

And the Mammal Center is hoping outreach can change behaviors. The strongest advice is to stay at least 50 yards away from any marine animal, roughly the distance of three school buses, end to end.

The Pacific Marine Mammal Center in Laguna Beach expects to move its operations to a temporary site in November. The center is in the midst of a $14-million expansion project.

The Marine Mammal Care Center, which has been struggling for nearly four months to keep pace with a toxic algae bloom that sickened and killed animals all along the California coast, celebrated ...

Volunteers from the Marine Mammal Center release California sea lions Quly (L) and Togozees (R) back to their ocean home at Rodeo Beach in Marin County, California, on August 4, 2023.

Half of the 407 marine mammal response calls in San Luis Obispo County last year were due to a domoic acid poisoning outbreak. “We responded to 200 sea lions alone in August and September in SLO ...

The Marine Mammal Center is hoping to reverse an alarming trend in wildlife disturbances. More than a quarter of the sea mammals rescued annually by the Sausalito-based animal hospital have been ...

Sea lions are part of the landscape and soundscape on the California coast. And when one of them is found sick or injured, it often ends up at the Marine Mammal Center in Sausalito.

"Marine mammal disturbance along our vast 600-mile California response range is both a tourist and a local issue that we're dedicating more resources toward to help find solutions," said Adam ...

KAILUA-KONA — In a sign of hope for the next generation of endangered Hawaiian monk seals and a critical boost to ongoing conservation efforts, researchers at the National Oceanic and ...