Federal scientists said the number of sea lion pups stranded on California beaches is spiking and is now higher than the total for all of 2013, the last time large numbers of pups starved.Watch this ...

LAGUNA BEACH (CBS/AP) -- Federal scientists say the number of sea lion pups stranded on California beaches is spiking and is now higher than the total for all of 2013, the last time large numbers of ...

Researchers are discovering that an extraordinarily high number of sea lion pups have come ashore along the California coast this winter, and are malnourished for reasons that are still being studied.

SAUSALITO, Calif. (AP) -- Marine mammal experts say another species of marine wildlife has begun turning up, emaciated and weak, in record numbers on the California coast in what has been a series of ...

Biologists are seeing hundreds of dead sea lion pups along California's uninhabited coastal islands. That number would typically be much lower during this time of year. “We have discovered that ...

Sick and dying sea lion pups are washing up on the shores of California in much larger numbers than usual. Last week there were 1,200 taken to facilities throughout the state. The Marina Mammal Care ...

Researchers at the Marine Mammal Center in Sausalito said the nonprofit has responded to 120 pups in the first five or six weeks of 2015. Last year the center didn't treat 100 pups until April. "This ...