Banner image: An endangered Galápagos fur seal. (Credit: Andrew Turner) While most of the world’s oceans are warming due to climate change, a new CU Boulder study explains how the waters around the ...

The Galapagos fur seal is believed to be the smallest of its kind in the world, with an adult male weighing about 110 pounds (50 kg) and 5 feet 3 inches in length.

The large northern fur seal, found in chilly northern waters, was hunted to near extinction during the 19th century. These animals were protected by law in 1911, and populations later rebounded to ...

As suggested by their name, the Galapagos fur seals were once endemic to the Galapagos island chain off the coast of Ecuador. But in a warming world species are on the move, and the Galapagos fur ...

Population dynamics of pinnipeds living in the tropical upwelling ecosystem of the Galapagos were strongly influenced by the 1982-83 Southern Oscillation-El Niño (EN) event which was the strongest ...

We studied the ontogeny of diving behaviour in the Galápagos fur seal (Arctocephalus galapagoensis, Heller 1904). Six-month-old seals spent less than 12% of observation time at sea and were entirely ...

The reproductive success of the Galápagos fur seal, Galápagos penguin, flightless cormorant and many other endemic species, is highly dependent upon this upwelling.

Taking advantage of warmer seas, fur seals from the Galapagos Islands have established a full-fledged colony on the Pacific Coast of Peru, some 900 miles (1,500 km) from their normal habitat ...