They are found off northern Pacific coasts from Japan to California. Steller sea lion breeding is one of nature's great mass spectacles. When these giants thunder ashore, their favored beaches ...

the South American sea lion, Steller’s or northern sea lion, and the Hooker’s, New Zealand or Auckland sea lion. Sea lions are often confused with seals. While sea lions and seals, along with ...

Alaska’s Western stock of Steller sea lions is critically endangered ... Photo by Sara Bernard, APRN-Anchorage. The fact that this pregnancy is going well is a big deal. The past two haven ...

Scientists with NOAA Fisheries’ Alaska Fisheries Science Center, which despite the name is based in Seattle, are trying to unravel the cause of the decline in Steller ... sea lions have not. In ...

Steller sea lions bask on rocks in the Gulf of Alaska on June 29, 2003, with the research vessel Tiglax sailing in the background. Of all NOAA-managed Alaska marine mammals, Steller sea lions were ...

The population of eastern Steller sea lions (Eumetopias jubatus) has grown so much - from 18,000 in the 1970s to more than 70,000 in 2010 - that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ...

The Alaska SeaLife Center is celebrating the birth of the Steller sea lion pup they’ve been anxiously awaiting. The female pup was born at 5:35am on June 20th, with no complications. Both pup ...

The eastern Steller sea lion, which roams the West Coast between Alaska and California, has been taken off the U.S. Endangered Species List after a major population comeback over the last several ...

A N C H O R A G E, Alaska, Jan. 17 -- A commercial fisherman is on trial for allegedly shooting and killing endangered Steller sea lions because they were competing for the same fish he was trying ...

An entangled Steller sea lion enters the water after being darted with a sedative during a rescue mission with UC Davis' SeaDoc Society. (Bob Frield) When a big male Steller sea lion was spotted near ...

Astro, a sea lion that lived in the Mystic Aquarium for the past 16 years has died, according to the aquarium. In a statement, the aquarium said the animal's condition had recently deteriorated ...