The national park infrastructure found throughout the United States is one of immense beauty. Sixty-plus designated parks can be found scattered across the nation, and each one is home to an ...

Seals belong to a group of marine mammals called pinnipeds. There are over 30 different seal species, separated into three ...

Researchers are trying to rebuild sea ice above the Arctic Circle so it can reflect the sun’s warming rays, slowing climate ...

“Late April is when we begin responding to white fluffy harbor seal pups, so when this little ... and March on pack ice and are nursed on high-fat milk for 12 days, so a pup from this species ...

If you go on a trip to a place where harbor seals typically call home, the chances of spotting them are high. Harbor seals are widely distributed and considered common in many coastal areas of the ...

Research has shown that most are headed for the seal populations on the rocky coasts of New England and Canada, where they will fill their bellies over a summer of gorging on their fat.

The 14-year-old harbor seal, named Gabby, died from asymptomatic heart disease during a necessary medical procedure during the week of April 14, according to a Facebook post sent be zoo staff.

These marine mammals are specially adapted to life on the ice, with thick fur and a layer of fat for insulation ... and resourcefulness. Seal sticking its head out of the water. Image by Keith Luke on ...

Leonard Glenn Francis, the Malaysian contractor known as “Fat Leonard” at the center of ... was submitted under seal. A motion to seal the opening brief was also apparently filed under seal.

A motion to seal the opening brief was also apparently filed under seal. Francis, known as “Fat Leonard” because of his enormous size, spent decades bribing a rotating cast of officers from ...

Tim Ackerman sliced into the thawing carcass of a harbor seal. “You want to keep parallel to the hide like this, as close as you can to the skin,” Ackerman said, narrating his deft movement separating ...