A Reddit user sparked outrage by sharing footage of a pair of tourists engaging in cruel and unusual behavior toward a ...

These volunteers work tirelessly to protect one of the region’s most sensitive marine mammals and have quietly built one of ...

If you ever plan on scuba diving in the coastal waters of Europe, Asia, or North America, you need to learn a bit about handling a seal encounter first. Many seals, including the harbor seal shown in ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — A seal was spotted lounging on a South Shore beach on Saturday, startling residents by its sudden appearance. A concerned resident sent a video of the seal — which seems to be a ...

Earlier this spring, researchers discovered a grisly scene in the sand at MacKerricher State Park near Fort Bragg in Northern California. Ice plants spattered with blood indicated there had been some ...

Number 39 was born on a rocky shoreline ledge in Harpswell. It was mid-April and the air was cool and damp, morning fog lifting into a gunmetal sky. Number 39’s mother had selected the ledge wisely — ...

When the carcasses of headless baby harbor seals began emerging on the Northern California coastline close to a decade ago, researchers hadn’t seen anything like it before. The thick mats of ice plant ...

There are only five seal populations worldwide that live year-round in freshwater habitats. The Baikal seal, probably the most well-known, lives in the deepest, oldest lake in the world, 1,600 ...

The 2025 harbor seal birthing season at the Children’s Pool in La Jolla is underway. By mid-March, approximately 50 pups had been born, with more expected. In 2024, over 60 viable seal pups were born.

Whether it’s ice cream, a greasy hamburger, or a heap of french fries, everybody loves fatty foods. For coyotes, that meal is a blubbery seal pup, according to a new study led by UC Santa Cruz ...