According to rescuers, the baby gray seal is severely underweight, weighing in at 28 pounds, when a typical seal pup would weigh a healthy 35 pounds at its age of approximately six weeks old.

Authorities in New Haven, Connecticut were stunned when they came across a baby seal wandering on the ... quickly after receiving reports that a seal pup was hanging around the downtown area ...

sharing that the baby seal persevered through his injuries as long as possible. The aquarium's animal rescue clinic started caring for the seal pup after a passerby in New Haven spotted Chappy ...