Even the most devoted cat lover must admit an uncomfortable truth about felines: They’re ecological hazards. Scientists blame cats for killing tens of billions of birds and small mammals each year, ...

Beware if you’re in the poop zone! Tourists at SeaWorld San Antonio didn’t expect the orca splash zone to feature a wave of killer whale fecal matter. Audience member Alex Bermudez, who captured the ...

Sea cucumbers (Holothuroidea) are strange, cylindrical marine invertebrates closely related to sea urchins and starfish. They have no eyes, resemble a colossal chubby worm, and use their anus for both ...

A toxic parasite "very different from anything" experts have seen before has killed four California sea otters and they're concerned it could spread to other marine life and even humans. Melissa ...

Four southern sea otters observed stranded off the coast of California near Santa Cruz and San Luis Obispo between February 2020 and March 2022 were diagnosed with fatal protozoal steatitis and ...

FOSTER CITY, Calif. (KGO) -- There is a battle brewing over Canada Geese and one Bay Area town's push to get rid of them. Foster City officials say the animals pose potential health risks to humans.

SAN DIEGO (CN) — A California appeals court upheld summary judgment to San Diego after Citizens for Odor Nuisance Abatement sued it for not cleaning up sea lion poop that stunk up La Jolla Cove. Sign ...

Acorn worms live in burrows on the seafloor so you’re not likely to ever see one. But you may see their absolutely enormous piles of poop. Snorkelers and divers have noted them for years and Nat Geo ...

Exactly how much human-generated carbon emissions the world’s oceans can soak up—and how this is done—is a question scientists are still pondering, but it’s accepted that the deepest seas can be an ...