The seal pup who was found in the city of New Haven, Connecticut in mid-February has died — but his legacy is far from being over. The Mystic Aquarium, who took care of the baby seal named Chappy ...

A necropsy found Chappy suffered from “mesenteric torsion,” a challenging condition in which his intestines were “twisted around the mesentery, cutting off blood supply to a large portion of ...

A necropsy found Chappy suffered from "mesenteric torsion," a challenging condition in which his intestines were "twisted around the mesentery, cutting off blood supply to a large portion of the ...

has suddenly died. But why? As the aquarium announced on Monday via Instagram, the little seal died of mesenteric torsion, a condition in which part of the intestine twists on its own axis so much ...

The aquarium did not say when he died. A necropsy performed on Chappy showed that he had died of mesenteric torsion, a twisting of the intestines that cuts off blood supply to a large portion of ...

"A complete necropsy was conducted, and findings are consistent with mesenteric torsion, meaning that his intestines were twisted around the mesentery, cutting off blood supply to a large portion ...