Harbor seals pups will soon start to populate the beaches in the northeastern U.S. during seal pupping season. Harbor seals generally bear young from May to June in the northeastern U.S., according to ...

These volunteers work tirelessly to protect one of the region’s most sensitive marine mammals and have quietly built one of ...

Alameda's harbor seal float is beginning to overflow. Richard Bangert reports that when the float was jam-packed at the beginning of December, about a dozen seals took it upon themselves to rest on ...

If you ever plan on scuba diving in the coastal waters of Europe, Asia, or North America, you need to learn a bit about handling a seal encounter first. Many seals, including the harbor seal shown in ...

As I begin to gear up for my summer job as a naturalist in southeast Alaska, I start running through the flora and fauna that I will need to know about out there. The temperate rainforests of ...

New Jersey's harbor seal population will be tagged and tracked for the first time thanks to a grant gifted to Stockton University from the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection. The ...

Washington state and federal wildlife officials, tribes and a nonprofit are using new tools in an intensive research project ...

Seals are semi-aquatic marine mammals. They’re also known as pinnipeds, which means ‘fin-footed’, referring to the large flippers they have for arms and legs. Combined with their streamlined, ...

They’re not known to be particularly great dancers, but harbor seals may have a decent sense of rhythm, according to a new research study. Scientists worked with seals at a seal rescue center in The ...