When the carcasses of headless baby harbor seals began emerging on the Northern California coastline close to a decade ago, researchers hadn’t seen anything like it before. The thick mats of ice ...

And while California coyotes might have hunted harbor-seal pups for centuries, this study is the first to empirically confirm the phenomenon that researchers first started noticing in 2016.

Exclusively in Iliamna Lake, Alaska’s largest body of freshwater, lives a small population of rare freshwater seals — one of only two freshwater harbor seal populations in the world. Alaska natives, ...

The Oregon coast supplies habitat for about 10,000 to 12,000 harbor seals (Phoca vitulina richardii) year-round, but the animals’ specific range was long unknown. To model the seals’ movements, ...

Seattle Aquarium staff on Friday euthanized Barney, a “super senior” harbor seal who flipped and glided through blue-green seawater for 39 years, delighting visitors who watched from the other ...

The harbor seal known as Barney, loved by visitors at the Seattle Aquarium, died on Friday morning. He was 39-years-old and one of the oldest known harbor seals in human care, according to the ...