Animals that researchers call “supersucklers” come back to nurse even after they can hunt, mate and fend for themselves.

BROOKFIELD, Ill. -- Two California sea lion pups were born at the Brookfield Zoo in June. Their births were the first for this species at Brookfield in nearly 30 years, Chicago Zoological Society ...

The remote Galápagos Islands of the Pacific, about 600 miles off the coast of Ecuador, have no historic monuments, only a handful of human settlements and the barest smattering of amenities such as ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. The name “lion” doesn’t only apply to the king of the ...

Of all the schemes that humans have devised to keep sea lions from gorging on the salmon of the Columbia River basin, none has worked for long. Local officials and researchers have chased sea lions ...

Rapid mobilization efforts helped to rescue a threatened sea lion from plastic waste, according to KUSI News. Researchers from the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance were monitoring the Salish Sea by ...

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