Searching for dwarf foxes and cloud forests on California's Santa Rosa Island. This is an Inside Science story. (Inside Science) -- For weeks, I had been promising my kids they would see baby foxes.

For eight hours, all they saw were dolphins and the spouts of humpback and gray whales. Then, the call went out.

If the crowds are getting a bit much, then it’s high time you took a trip to the Channel Islands National Park, an undeveloped hidden gem off the coast of Southern California. Known as the Galapagos ...

Some 12 miles off the California coast near Ventura, the rugged volcanic ridges that form the spine of Anacapa Island, or more precisely its three closely connected islets, thrust upward from the ...

U.S. News Insider Tip: Inspiration Point on the island of Anacapa has the best views. Reach it on a relatively easy 1.5-mile hike that passes sweeping vistas of the ocean and inlets, and depending on ...