Small, fertile, rugged and fueled by an expansive appetite, the species, he says, is “an exemplary invader, a perfect invader ...

At one time, San Diego was known as the “tuna capitol of the world,” with two of the nation’s largest canneries right here ...

The Jacuzzi of Death, located 3,000ft below the Gulf of Mexico, is a circle around 100-foot wide and has very dense, very toxic waters containing methane and hydrogen sulphide ...

During the day, the intertidal can be a magical and mysterious place, where critters come and go with the tides and slip in and out of cracks in the rocks.

I let my 10-year-old twins roam free with no supervision when we stayed at a private resort. I saw a huge change from having ...

Thousands of marine species from microscopic zooplankton to the largest cetaceans rely on sound for survival and many have ...

When a shark egg appeared one day in a shark tank at a Louisiana aquarium, staff were puzzled. That’s because the tank only ...

From mammoth African elephants to giant whales, let's take a look at the 8 largest mammals that inhabit our planet.

Singers and scribes have waxed poetic for decades about the best beaches in California—here, find our favorites.

The Barreleye fish’s see-through head is a rare and incredible feature, giving it an almost otherworldly appearance. It can ...

The L.A. Times Features team shares the places that have helped them amid uncertainty, be it a hot spring, cool desert, ...

Volunteers were up before the sun on Friday morning, some as early as 2:30 a.m., heading to villages across the island for ...