Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... LAGUNA BEACH — Keith Matassa performed necropsies — animal autopsies — on Guadalupe fur seals Pacific Marine Mammal Center rescue teams picked up recently, ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Scientists are looking at ocean-warming trends to figure out why endangered Guadalupe fur seals are stranding themselves and dying in alarming numbers along the central California ...

The large northern fur seal, found in chilly northern waters, was hunted to near extinction during the 19th century. These animals were protected by law in 1911, and populations later rebounded to 1.3 ...

All land mammals and birds have two types of sleep: rapid eye movement (REM) and non-REM (also called slow-wave sleep). Earlier evidence had suggested that REM sleep--associated with dreaming--is ...

Biologists gave Kayok, a 1-year-old fur seal pup, a 50% of survival in the wild. An injured seal pup rescued from the shores of Alaska has found its "furever" home after a lengthy rehabilitation in an ...

This August 2019 photo released by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Fisheries (NOAA) shows a mature northern fur seal standing on a beach on Bogoslof Island, Alaska. Alaska's ...

LOS ANGELES – Scientists are looking at ocean-warming trends to figure out why endangered Guadalupe fur seals are stranding themselves and dying in alarming numbers along the central California coast.