Interested in animals that eat kelp and seaweed? Read on to learn about 14 amazing marine animals that chow down on this ...

A photographer shares the epiphanies she has had while chronicling underwater jungles off the California coast ...

Public safety officials have been warning beachgoers to stay away from animals found stranded on the beach because they can become aggressive.

The carnivorous sea ... On California’s North Coast, where other urchin nemeses — like otters, spiny lobsters and sheephead — are lacking, 96% of the region’s kelp forests vanished in ...

These ecosystems also attract larger predators such as seals and sea lions ... Kelp forests are found on every continent except Antarctica, stretching from the chilly coasts of California and ...

Los Angeles (CNN) — Along some 70 miles of Southern California coastline ... “It is getting to the point where elephant seal pups and sea lion pups are stranding now in high numbers ...

the kelp forests off the coast of northern California. Warming sea water has triggered an explosion in the population of purple sea urchins (Strongylocentrotus purpuratus) which devour kelp at an ...

A stranded sea lion suffering from suspected domoic acid ... on March 27, 2025 in Oxnard, California ...