About half can be found in Greek waters, where an island or inlet might be home to just a few monk seals. Their ancestors were much more social. In The Odyssey, Homer described monk seals crowding ...

About 1,100 live in the remote Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, where discarded nets and other ... Fewer than 700 Mediterranean monk seals hang on between Madeira and the Aegean Sea, while the last ...

Rocky has previously given birth at Kaimana Beach, but gave birth to a pup, on June 20, at Sand Island State Recreation area, the first recorded monk seal birth at the location. 1 /2 COURTESY DLNR ...