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

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

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

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

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

Sea lions aren't super high on the list of aquatic animals surfers usually need to worry about encountering in the water.

Poisoned ‘almost demonic’ sea lions could terrorize beachgoers this summer - Scientists say a mass poisoning event of the ...

Domoic acid poisoning is stranding marine mammals as warnings are issued to beachgoers of the threat posed by animals that ...

“Today, I endured the most harrowing and traumatic experience of my 20 years of surfing,” photographer and explorer Rj LaMendola captioned the post while recalling the attack. The Ventura ...

Sea lions on the California coast are displaying strange behavior likely due to a harmful algae bloom impacting the region, ...

Filter-feeding fish ingest a deadly algal neurotoxin called domoic acid and are then eaten by sea lions, seals and dolphins.

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 ...