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

Bengal cats are one of America’s most popular exotic pets, behind bearded dragons, snakes, and lizards. Bengals are not often ...

Bearded and ringed seals give birth and rear their pups on the ice. They were listed as threatened in 2012 amid concerns with anticipated sea ice declines in the coming decades. The state, North ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A judge in Alaska has set aside a federal agency’s action designating an area the size of Texas as critical habitat for two species of threatened Arctic Alaska seals. U.

A judge in Alaska has set aside a federal agency's action designating an area the size of Texas as critical habitat for two species of threatened Arctic Alaska seals. U.S. District Court Judge ...

For Aaron Mitchell, 17, this was his first ugruk hunt, and his most favorite part was searching for seals. “We went from the boat to the ice, and we were crawling to a seal,” Mitchell said.

At -22°F, the Mediterranean monk seals lost 1.45 times as much heat and 3.5 times as much water per breath cycle than the bearded seals lost.

This Sept. 5, 2006, file photo shows a bearded seal in Kotzebue, Alaska. (Michael Cameron/NOAA Fisheries Service via AP, file) (CN) — Alaska ice seals won critical federal habitat protections Thursday ...

Fournet and her colleagues monitored calls by male bearded seals off of the North Slope Borough in Northern Alaska. They found that the seals increased the volume of their calls in response to ...

Bearded seals have to be loud to be heard over the cacophony of their equally loud brethren. And, increasingly, the noise humans make is adding to the underwater din and could have serious ...

ITHACA, N.Y. - During mating season, male bearded seals make loud calls to attract a mate. How loud? Well, even their "quiet" call can still be as ear-rattling as a chainsaw.