Chonkers, a giant Steller sea lion, sits on a dock at San Francisco's Fishermen's Wharf, Thursday, April 30, 2026.

Sunny the young otter will eventually be trained to be a surrogate otter to other young pups, thanks to two-year-old otter ...

Scientists and tourists alike have been amazed by the massive sea lion hanging out on a San Francisco pier. The species can ...

Scientists still have much left to learn about the creatures, even as hundreds of thousands of them wash ashore.

The myriapoda group of arthropods includes the many-legged centipedes and millipedes that most people are familiar with.

For decades, it seemed Antarctica might be insulated from rapid ice melting, but then sea ice began to decline dramatically.