On her first dedicated scientific voyage to Antarctica in March, the Australian icebreaker RSV Nuyina found the area sea-ice ...

A heartwarming scene unfolded on the North Coast as the last three Pacific harbor seal pups of the season were released back ...

Cuteness can shift moods and lower cortisol, and science backs it up. Looking at baby animals, like a seal pup blinking on a ...

"We've had the rare opportunity to confirm it, using solid, long-term data." Scientists issue warning after studying ...

A harp seal pup sits on a snow-covered beach near the town of Blanc-Sablon, Québec, in early March. Normally harp seals give birth and raise their pups on sea ice in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, but ...

Arctic foxes and polar bears often try to root out the pups for dinner. Brendan is trying to understand how flooding the snow for sea ice thickening could impact seal reproduction. Kelly: Birthing ...

Instead, they found a harp seal pup, which are typically born in the arctic in February or March, according to a social media post from Marine Mammals of Maine. Baby harp seals have white wooly fur ...

According to Marine Mammals of Maine, harp seals are born in the Arctic in February and March on pack ice and are nursed on high-fat milk for 12 days, so a pup from this species in our region is rare.

Witness a touching moment as the seal runs after her curious pup, ensuring its safety. Read more about the encounter here. Witness a touching ... especially during breeding seasons. They can be found ...

D:It's time to go again to the A Moment of Science mailbag. A listener writes in . . . Dear A Moment of Science: I've heard that global warming and melting ice and snow in the Arctic is killing ...

An interdisciplinary team of researchers has documented the widespread use of seal skins in Romanesque bookbindings of manuscripts produced between the 12th and 13th centuries in Cistercian ...

Between the numerous carcasses and the camera-trap images, the study authors attribute the loss of some 55 seal pups at the MacKerricher rookery since 2016 to coyotes—and noted that a varied ...