Outbreak in Año Nuevo State Park has prompted officials to cancel the park’s popular seal-watching tours for the remainder of ...

Female bees and wasps are the real defenders. Only females can sting, because stingers are modified egg-laying organs. Males do nothing in defence. Females guard nests, food, and colonies with extreme ...

Researchers say seven seal pups have tested positive for an avian flu virus at California’s Año Nuevo State Park and several ...

Researchers at UC Davis say news they've dreaded since 2023 has come to pass: California's elephant seals have been infected ...

Southern right whales have distinctive white and gray patches of thickened skin on their heads known as callosities. Because ...

Ever since a deadly strain of avian influenza, H5N1, killed some 17,000 southern elephant seal pups on South American coastlines in 2023 and 2024, researchers and public officials have kept an ...

Deadly bird flu found in California elephant seals for the first time: H5N1 bird flu confirmed in California elephant seals for the first time, bringing the same virus that killed more than 17,000 in ...

Community Notes FRIDAY Senior Lunch — Dining hall opens at 11 a.m., Bob Chisholm Community Center, 1225 Avenue A, Seaside. Meals are for ages 60 and over; there’s a $3 donation. For information, call ...

A Michigan mother is making and collecting soft, yarn toys that are being donated to the neonatal intensive care unit at a Detroit hospital. Joelle Haley already has crocheted about 20 colorful ...

A harmful algal bloom known as a red tide is causing the mass deaths of crayfish and other ocean life on parts of South ...

The Laguna Beach Patriots Day Parade committee has announced the honorees for the 59th annual parade, which is scheduled to ...

"No matter how it happened, we do know that with a mother to protect it, feed it, and teach it how to be a polar bear, the cub’s chances of survival are far better now than if it was left on its own." ...