Federal regulators plan to reevaluate fishing closure boundaries established to protect endangered Steller sea lions in ...

A massive sea lion nicknamed 'Chonkers' is turning heads - and drawing crowds - at San Francisco's Pier 39 after being spotted lounging among the docks in recent weeks. 'Chonkers' is a Steller sea ...

A 2,000-pound visitor has turned San Francisco’s Pier 39 into a must-see attraction. Chonkers — a Steller sea lion roughly three times the size of the California sea lions that typically gather there ...

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. - A sea lion named Chonkers is capturing hearts and making waves on social media. Laying amid the dozens of sea lions on Pier 39 in San Francisco, California, Chonkers stands out ...

Westley the sea lion might just be a pup, but he has already had an immense journey. What started in a precarious situation ...

SAN FRANCISCO — An intrepid sea lion nicknamed Chonkers is waddling his way into the hearts of tourists and locals who have flocked to San Francisco's Pier 39 for a glimpse of the massive pinniped. On ...

The newest celebrity in San Francisco? It’s an immensely large sea lion, which the world has named Chonkers. Chonkers showed up in early March at San Francisco’s Pier 39, where floating docks of ...

Theory helps us bear our ignorance of fact. —George Santayana, The Sense of Beauty Steller sea lions are found along the North Pacific rim from California to Japan with about 70% of the population ...

Westley has found his new family after a long rescue journey.

Scientists and tourists alike have been amazed by the massive sea lion hanging out on a San Francisco pier. The species can grow nearly twice the size of California sea lions. "Chonkers," a Steller ...

Two paradoxes permeated the committee’s discussion. First, the available behavioral and physiological evidence for the 1990s suggests that individuals in the declining western stock of Steller sea ...