Animal care staff at the Wetlands and Wildlife Care Center nursed the 13 pelicans back to health as a domoic acid poisoning ...

A die-off last year at St. Paul Island, the first compelling case of fatal saxitoxin poisoning in marine mammals, comes as ...

Twelve brown pelicans that recovered from domoic acid poisoning were released at Huntington Beach on Wednesday morning.

A flock of brown pelicans was released back into the wild near the Huntington Beach Pier. They had been nursed back to health ...

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 ...

Harmful algae blooms have been rapidly producing in a place previously too cold to host the toxin: the Arctic.

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 ...

The neurotoxin domoic acid is blamed for the extreme distress and deaths of many sea lions along the Central Coast, as well as the deaths of two dolphins and two seals.

We hear about periodic alarming levels of domoic acid in our seafood. Levels are monitored constantly and closely by our California Department of Fish & Wildlife (DFW), and when levels rise above ...

Domoic acid is a potent neurotoxin produced by several species within Pseudo‐nitzschia, and its presence in marine food webs poses significant threats to wildlife and human health.

A sea lion showing signs of domoic acid poisoning arrives at the Marine Mammal Care Center in San Pedro for treatment on Tuesday, March 18, 2025. (Photo by Drew A. Kelley, Press-Telegram/SCNG) ...