Volunteers from the Marine Mammal Center release California sea lions Quly (L) and Togozees (R) back to their ocean home at Rodeo Beach in Marin County, California, on August 4, 2023.

Sam Gattlin discovered the marine mammal center soon after moving to San Pedro from the U.K. Now, he comes by after work once a week to help clean up after the third feeding of the day.

A northern elephant seal pup pokes its head above the water in its enclosure at the Marine Mammal Center in Sausalito, Calif., where it is being cared for, on Friday, June 3, 2022.

The Marine Mammal Center is not a zoo, nor is it a museum. First and foremost, it’s a functioning animal rescue and care facility, dedicated to helping the aforementioned furry sea creatures ...

The Marine Mammal Center in the Marin Headlands of Sausalito will reopen its doors this week for the first time in two years, after being closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

In April of 2022, experts with the Marine Mammal Center found a male harbor seal pup alone on Shell Beach in Sonoma County, far from his mother and showing signs of severe head trauma. The young ...

Pacific Marine Mammal Center closed its doors to the public on Oct. 22. The closure is expected to last until the expansion project wraps up in the fourth quarter of 2024.

In 2008, the mammal center operated on a $4 million budget, with 40 staffers and 800 volunteers. Now it requires $17 million, 110 employees and 1,200 volunteers.

This is the Pacific Marine Mammal Center's 50th year rescuing and rehabilitating injured seals, seal lions and other sea life and it has rescued 106 animals so far.