image: Bearded seal on ice view more . Credit: Michael Cameron, NOAA. Ithaca, NY-- During mating season, male bearded seals make loud calls to attract a mate--even their "quiet" call could still ...

A bearded seal swimming in Arctic waters in Svalbard, Norway. Their name comes from the long and sensitive facial whiskers that they use to find food.

Aaron Mitchell stands on the ice in June 2024 during his first bearded seal hunt. Photo by Tommy Swan Sr. The crew went out as far as Rabbit Creek, past the port site toward Kotzebue, Adams said.

Bearded seals are the largest of the northern, ice seals, according to the complaint in Fairbanks. Though Alaska says "bearded seal populations are currently healthy and numerous," the National Marine ...

A baby harbour seal was spotted at Oka Beach, north of Montreal, on Tuesday. Patrick Weldon of the Quebec Marine Mammal ...

Oct. 27 (UPI) --Animal control officers were called to an Alaska airport for an unusual runway obstruction: a 450-pound seal lounging on the tarmac. Officials at Wiley Post-Will Rogers Memorial ...

A bearded seal rests on ice in 2011 off the coast of Alaska. (Photo by John Jansen/NOAA’s Alaska Fisheries Science Center) After almost a decade of delays, the federal government is moving ...

In 2011, several species of ice-dependent Alaska seals, including bearded seals, were part of an unusual die-off. Animals turned up dead or sick with abnormal coats, among other symptoms, he says.

It's a seal. BLOCK: That's Babcock, who shot video of the 450-pound bearded seal on the runway and posted it to Facebook. Now, at this Alaskan airport, wild animals out on the runway - not unusual.

Bearded seals - or ugruk in the Inupiaq language - are highly valued by Alaska Native communities in the high Arctic. Since bearded seals are at the center of subsistence and cultural activities ...