As Christmas nears, things start to generally get tense for Santa, and for this one especially. A confused-looking seal, dubbed "Santa the seal" by onlookers, ended up stopping traffic after somehow ...

Juan Fernández fur seals are so poorly understood that they were considered extinct for nearly a century before a remnant population which had managed to evade generations of hunters was rediscovered ...

Although the boat is about a mile away, the scientists aboard the research vessel can still hear the low, growling noise being emitted by a male Cape fur seal (Arctocephalus pusillus pusillus). The ...

Research published last month in the journal Marine Mammal Science linked fur seal deaths in the Bering Sea to the same toxins that cause paralytic shellfish poisoning. It marks the first documented ...

The Antarctic fur seal (Arctocephalus gazella) is among the most beloved sea animals, with its wet puppy dog eyes, big white whiskers, rolly poly gray body and slippery flippers. Unsurprisingly, the ...

Northern fur seals at a haul-out on St. Paul Island in October, 2024. Everyone around St. Paul knows Zinaida Melovidov as Grandma Zee. She grew up working in the community’s blubbering shop, back when ...

Researchers were in Kaikōura last week to learn more about the behaviour of kekeno/New Zealand fur seals at sea.Satellite ...

This article was originally published by Hakai Magazine. In the Antarctic, the fur-seal population is booming. Having rebounded from near eradication by hunters in the 18th and 19th centuries, ...

SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — Three marine mammals found in need of help in Southern California this spring have been released back into the Pacific Ocean after a successful rehabilitation, SeaWorld San ...

This article is from Hakai Magazine, an online publication about science and society in coastal ecosystems. Read more stories like this at hakaimagazine.com. The two landmasses that make up the bulk ...

Fifty years ago, Patrick Pletnikoff spent his summers stripping blubber from the carcasses of seals clubbed to death in Alaska's annual harvest, competing with other young men to show who wielded the ...