Ronan the sea lion can still keep a beat after all these years. She can groove to rock and electronica. But the 15-year-old California sea lion’s talent shines most in bobbing to disco hits like ...

A 15-year-old sea lion named Ronan proved better at keeping a beat than 10 college students in a rhythmic dance-off, researchers reported Thursday in the journal Scientific Reports. The results ...

But a rescue sea lion from California has proven otherwise, with her outstanding ability to synchronize her movements to a beat, with such precision that she's even outperformed humans in ...

And some animals could have better rhythm than us Homo sapiens. One trained California sea lion (Zalophus californianus) named Ronan can keep a beat better than some people, according to a new ...

Now, the highly trained California sea lion who achieved global fame for her ability to bob her head to a beat is finally back: starring in a new study that shows her rhythm is just as precise ...

As she has aged, the pinniped’s rhythmic abilities have only improved. Ronan, a California sea lion of the Long Marine Laboratory at the University of California ...

California sea lion Ronan at UC Santa Cruz’s Long Marine Laboratory. (Photo by Colleen Reichmuth; NOAA/NMFS 23554) Animal research on biomusicality, which looks at whether different species are ...

Now, at 170 pounds and age 16, the team says Ronan is "grown up and in her prime" for a female sea lion in managed care. Being with her day in and day out, over more than a decade, the researchers ...

An aggressive sea lion sent surfers running this week after it repeatedly went after them, even coming onto the beach, video of the incident showed. The sea lion was suffering from severe domoic ...