In an unprecedented development, rabies has become endemic in Cape fur seals - the first documented case in marine mammals ...

New research from the University of Cambridge sheds light on the use of seal products across Europe during the middle ages, ...

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 ...

The material on the covers of books from a French abbey was too hairy to have come from calves or other local mammals.

Beachgoers are advised to exercise caution as rabies becomes endemic among Cape fur seals in South Africa, with experts ...

They comprise the extant families Odobenidae (whose only living member is the walrus), Otariidae (the eared seals: sea lions and fur seals), and Phocidae (the earless, or true seals). Seals range ...

The fur seal had come from Guanabara Bay and only stayed there for a few minutes before heading back out to sea, city authorities in Niterói reported. Last Wednesday, a fur seal appeared on ...

describe the seals as fatter, larger and darker in color than their saltwater neighbors, with a unique fur pattern. Given Iliamna Lake seals’ separation from other harbor seal populations and singular ...

the tag has to be adhered to his fur which he was rapidly losing as he has entered his annual molt," the facility wrote in a Wednesday Facebook post showing the seal wiggling and sliding his way ...