Seals belong to a large clade of semi-aquatic animals called Pinnipeds. This clade also includes sea lions and walruses.

Meet Ronan the sea lion, the only non-human mammal to demonstrate highly precise beat keeping, challenging our understanding ...

For years, scientists believed that rhythm was a skill exclusively reserved to humans, out of all mammals. But a rescue sea lion from California has proven otherwise, with her outstanding ability to ...

California sea lion Ronan at UC Santa Cruz’s Long Marine ... the team says Ronan is “grown up and in her prime” for a female sea lion in managed care. Being with her day in and day out, over more than ...

On Jan. 24, the female humpback was seen dead in Huntington ... “We typically see mass strandings of California sea lions, with occasional dolphins, during domoic acid events,” Dr. Alissa ...