A common neurotoxin produced by algae blooms is making California sea lions more aggressive. Here’s why it has the power to change behavior—and the danger it poses.

Shutterstock Image Often times, when surfers are paddling out into the deep, blue ocean they have only two fears — sharks and ...

A longtime surfer and marine wildlife advocate was "left shaken" to his core after a relentless and horrifying encounter with ...

It started as a normal surf session for RJ LaMendola. He was roughly 150 yards from the beach in Southern California, riding ...

I endured the most harrowing and traumatic experience of my 20 years of surfing,” the photographer and explorer said.

A California surfer was left injured and shaken after a violent sea lion attack, which experts believe was triggered by a ...

A surfer in California was terrorized by an aggressive sea lion that bit through his wetsuit, dragged him off his board and ...

A marine mammal nonprofit has assessed more than 200 sea lions and 10 dolphins apparently sickened with domoic acid poisoning ...

In a Facebook post, Rj LaMendola described his experience riding the waves at Oxnard State Beach Park before encountering the 'deranged predator'. Out of nowhere, it erupted from the water ...

RJ LaMendola shared what he called “the most harrowing and traumatic experience” in all his 20 years of surfing in a March 21 post on Facebook. He was “riding the waves in solitude” about ...

A rattled RJ LaMendola wound up in a hospital after being bitten in the left buttocks as he tried to fend off the relentless attack by the sea lion in the rare encounter off Oxnard. LaMendola was ...