The fossil skeleton is thought to be more than 20 million years old, making it the earliest fossil pinniped -- the taxonomic name for seals, sea lions and walruses -- yet discovered, they report in ...
The ancestors and relatives of seals and sea lions, called pinnipeds, also took the plunge in the deep past. Paleontologists are still piecing together how otter-like creatures related to bears ...
A new UC Santa Cruz study reveals coyotes are decapitating baby seals across the Northern California and Bay Area coastline.
The juvenile gray seal recently weaned off his mother's milk and ventured five miles into the coastal Connecticut city ...
Pinnipeds, colloquially known as seals, are a widely distributed and diverse clade of fin-footed, semiaquatic marine mammals. They comprise the extant families Odobenidae (whose only living member ...
A seal pup that was found on the streets of New ... which is now known as “Chappy.” As the beloved pinniped that was found at Chapel and East streets in the Fair Haven neighborhood over ...
An injured grey seal first spotted on a slipway in the naval base last week was seen fishing for food off Europa Point on ...
If greenhouse gas emissions continue as usual, scientists say that sea ice in the seal's range could decline 40 percent by mid-century, leading to widespread pup mortality. Without sufficient ice, ...
During bitter cold Canadian winters, roughly 300,000 to 400,000 grey seals meet up on Sable Island. This remote sandbar off the coast of Nova Scotia is where the pinnipeds rest, breed, give birth ...