In the middle of competing in the 1,000-yard swim test, she felt pain in her right ... which is when the animal -- she later found out was a sea lion -- let go of her arm. Phoebe Beltran, 15 ...

For years, scientists felt like the fish they were watching watched them back. A new study suggests they can recognize a ...

Fifteen-year-old Phoebe Beltran has several cuts on her right arm and was hospitalized following the confrontation with the ...

When larger animals like sea lions, dolphins ... had been completing a swimming test for a lifeguard program when she felt something grip her arm in the water. Although she was bitten, she ...

Phoebe Beltran was in the homestretch of her 1,000-yard swim when she suddenly felt an intense pain as the sea lion bit her ...

Sea otters are one of the predators — one of the wolves, to continue the metaphor, to our urchin deer — keeping urchins in ...

“But a sea lion?” Beltran told KTLA5 she was in the water about 25 feet from shore during her junior lifeguard tryout and was in the final leg of her 1,000-yard swim when she suddenly felt an ...

“The law of the sea basically colonized [Pacific peoples’] ocean,” said Frank Murphy, a resident of French Polynesia who ...

She was in the homestretch of her 1,000-yard swim when she suddenly felt an intense ... know is the sea lion was very agile, very fast.” It’s unclear what happened to the animal, since it ...

Cierra Stockard was swimming with the gentle sea creatures during spring break when one of the animals lifted her into ... “It just felt like I got into a car accident,” the mother of two ...

She was in the home stretch of her 1,000-yard swim when she suddenly felt ... Sea lions sickened by toxic algae bloom have increased in cases across Southern California, but it’s unclear if the ...