A 32-year-old man is going to prison after pleading guilty to beating a sick sea lion on a California beach, officials said.

The Huntington Beach nonprofit says 45% of the 8,000 wildlife it cares for annually comes from OC Animal Care's service area.

Brown pelicans were released back into the wild after being rehabilitated from domoic acid poisoning in Southern California.

A pod of 13 brown pelicans were released back into the wild by veterinarians at Huntington Beach in California on Wednesday.

After being poisoned during a toxic algal bloom earlier this year, a flock of rehabilitated brown pelicans returned to the wild on Wednesday morning. Animal care experts at Wetlands and Wildlife Ca… ...

Animal care staff at the Wetlands and Wildlife Care Center nursed the 13 pelicans back to health as a domoic acid poisoning event sickened marine life along the entire Southern California coastline.

Domoic acid can accumulate in fish without the organism itself becoming ill. At low levels, domoic acid exposure can cause persistent short-term memory loss, seizures and can in some cases be ...

Tests showed high levels of domoic acid in a dead whale found on a Ventura beach. Here's what to know.

Two whales, along with dolphins and sea lions, recently washed ashore in Long Beach, the latest victims of a toxic domoic acid outbreak caused by a harmful algal bloom spreading along the Southern ...

Care Center officials said recent testing of ocean water showed no more signs of the domoic acid algae bloom that devastated marine life for 14 weeks.