Hawaiian monk seals grow to be 6-7 feet long, weigh 400-600 pounds, and can live more than 30 years. Males and females are generally the same size — the only way to tell them apart is to look at ...
As of November 2024, the Orford Ness colony likely has over 400 seals, including 80 pups born this season. Officials credit thriving seal population to unexpected factor: 'It's part of their natural ...
Exclusively in Iliamna Lake, Alaska’s largest body of freshwater, lives a small population of rare freshwater seals — one of only two freshwater harbor seal populations in the world. Alaska natives, ...
when we and allies filed suit against the National Marine Fisheries Service for letting a lobster fishery and bottomfish fishery further deplete the seal's food supply, invade critical habitat, and ...
A harp seal that stopped for a rest on a Beverly beach over the weekend is back in the water. The harp seal was spotted resting on Independence Park Beach on Sunday morning, near the jetty at the ...
Large colonies of sea lions and elephant seals line miles of coastal beaches, while southern right whales harbor in the gulfs. Conservation efforts to protect the rare and endangered species that ...