I dropped into the water, mask down. I hadn’t taken a proper breath, so I had to emerge quickly. “Holy sh*t,” I swore, and ...

Mexican authorities operating in the northern Gulf of California dismantled more than 9,000 meters of mesh nets which had ...

Visit the 15-acre grounds at the former estate of the late Walter and Leonore Annenberg, including nine acres of desert ...

For the first time, scientists documented concerted carnivory by California ground squirrels. But why were there so many ...

Not every creature is built for peak survival. While some animals have evolved to sprint, soar, or blend into their surroundings, others have developed unusual traits that seem to defy practicality.

Conservationists are determined to protect the magnificent rays of the Pacific—whether that’s tracking them with acoustic tags or flying drones, or through exposing the black market for their meat and ...

The Loreto area is very special, and the community knows it. So much so that they have the only community-driven national marine parks and land parks. According to our guide Ivette, Mexico has 70 per ...

With his magnificent underwater images, Gerardo del Villar wants to rehabilitate the reputation of the ocean’s great ...

The study, published in March in the journal Nature Communications, calculates that in oceans across the globe, great whales ...

UC Santa Cruz professors Dan Costa and Ari Friedlaender contributed their marine-mammal expertise to the study, which was ...

Dock Totals 2/23 – 3/1: 571 anglers aboard 24 half-day to 3-day trips out of San Diego landings over the past week caught 79 bocaccio, 7 calico bass, 23 halibut (to 28-pounds), 210 lingcod, 12 rock ...

Whales are not just big, they’re a big deal for healthy oceans. When they poop, whales move tons of nutrients from deep water ...