At 8 a.m., with the sun lighting the sky but not yet over the hills, a team of marine mammal rescuers climbed down on to the beach among the Piedras Blancas elephant seals. Within the hour, the seal — ...

Necklace, an elephant seal with plastic wrapped around her neck, rests on the beach at high tide on May 6, 2024. A Marine Mammal Center team was able to remove the plastic after isolating and sedating ...

A Steller sea lion that was slowly being strangled by a discarded packing strap over the past several months was freed of the entanglement by rescuers near Alert Bay this week. Veterinarian Dr. Martin ...