Harbor seals in icy regions use icebergs shed by glaciers as safe platforms to give birth, care for young and molt. New research finds that as glaciers change with the climate, the resulting changes ...

Greece is hoping that protected areas will help keep daytrippers away and allow vulnerable monk seals to return to their island habitats Deep in a sea cave in Greece’s northern Sporades, a bulky shape ...

The post Tourism Drove These Rare Seals into a Hidden Cave appeared first on A-Z Animals. Beneath the sun-soaked waves of the Mediterranean, one of the world's rarest marine mammals is hiding in a ...

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BirdLife Cyprus said on Friday it is taking the government to court, hoping to halt construction of a port in Pentakomo that endangers the habitat of the endangered Mediterranean monk seal. Heavy ...

Seals can nap underwater by shutting down half of their brain at a time—this lets them rest and stay alert for predators. Some seals can dive over 1,500 feet deep and hold their breath for more than ...

This Sept. 5, 2006, file photo shows a bearded seal in Kotzebue, Alaska. (Michael Cameron/NOAA Fisheries Service via AP, file) (CN) — It’s back to the drawing board for the federal agency tasked with ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A federal agency will decide by September how much ocean and coast in northern Alaska will be designated as critical habitat for two ice seal species. The Center for ...