A trio of southern sea otters frolic in a Monterey Bay wave near the end of Rockview Drive in Pleasure Point this week. According to the Monterey Bay Aquarium’s website, the bay is currently ...

CSU Monterey Bay faculty told students to “raft up” several times throughout the Sunday's graduation ceremony, referring to sea otters’ tendency to hold paws to stay together.

Volunteer divers help keep the Monterey Bay Aquarium Kelp Forest exhibit clean. Even with the aquarium closed to visitors because of COVID-19, volunteer divers plunge into the tanks three times a ...

The Monterey Bay Aquarium has posted Mailander’s shark photos and videos on its website in the past, and he often helps Cal State Monterey Bay researchers identify, count and tag great white ...

The Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary sparkles in morning sunlight. A combination of pleasure boats, research vessels and fishing boats can be seen from Santa Cruz to Monterey and beyond.

T he top of the kelp forest emerges from the surface of the Monterey Bay recently as a pelican wings by a resting paddler near Lighthouse Point in Santa Cruz. Held upright by gas-filled bladders ...

In late October, staff from the Fish and Wildlife Department’s Marine Region conducted aerial surveys and observed 48 humpback whales in Fishing Zone 3 that includes all of Monterey Bay. Aerial ...