Being in the right place at the right time can change everything. For one harbor seal off the coast of Washington state, it ...

Harbor seals use their whiskers to gather all sorts of intel from their surroundings. These exquisitely tuned sensory hairs even seem to allow them to outmaneuver the escape plans of their fishy prey.

There are only five seal populations worldwide that live year-round in freshwater habitats. The Baikal seal, probably the most well-known, lives in the deepest, oldest lake in the world, 1,600 ...

Seattle’s Golden Gardens is one of the most popular places for harbor seals and their babies to hang out, and in late summer and early fall you might just be lucky enough to see one. “Harbor Seals are ...

Firsthand observations of a wolf hunting and killing a harbor seal and a group of wolves hunting and consuming a sea otter on Alaska's Katmai coast have led scientists to reconsider assumptions about ...

The 2024 harbor seal birthing season at the Children’s Pool in La Jolla reached its peak around Valentine’s Day and finished in early March. There are about 50 seal pups learning to swim and fish, and ...

Whether it’s ice cream, a greasy hamburger, or a heap of french fries, everybody loves fatty foods. For coyotes, that meal is a blubbery seal pup, according to a new study led by UC Santa Cruz ...

Earlier this spring, researchers discovered a grisly scene in the sand at MacKerricher State Park near Fort Bragg in Northern California. Ice plants spattered with blood indicated there had been some ...

WESTPORT, Wash. — SeaLife Response, Rehabilitation and Research (SR3) has successfully released two rehabilitated harbor seal pups back into the ocean, marking their first releases of the season. The ...

When the carcasses of headless baby harbor seals began emerging on the Northern California coastline close to a decade ago, researchers hadn’t seen anything like it before. The thick mats of ice plant ...

Karen Wilkinson, a volunteer seal docent with The Sea Ranch Association, captured the photos and video earlier this month. A Sea Ranch resident captured the “remarkable” birth of a harbor seal pup on ...

A beachgoer mistakenly thought the seal had been abandoned. In this May 21, 2016, photo provided by the Westport Aquarium, a baby seal is seen laying across a shopping tote used to carry it off a ...