Northern fur seals have been declining since the 1950s, per Alaska Public Media, and researchers suspect plastic pollution plays a role. "We have this decline in northern fur seals, and is it due ...

Alaska natives, who have hunted Iliamna Lake seals for centuries, describe the seals as fatter, larger and darker in color than their saltwater neighbors, with a unique fur pattern. Given Iliamna Lake ...

repaid Alaska’s $7.2 million purchase price 28 times over. Then, almost a century ago, estimates that only 200,000 to 300,000 fur seals remained in the world mobilized conservationists and ...

Spotted seals in some of the most remote marine areas around Alaska are consuming significant amounts of microplastics in their diets, according to a new University of Alaska Fairbanks–led study. The ...

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 Falkland Islands is home to the largest population of South American fur seals (Arctocephalus asutralis australis) in the world, according to a recent scientific paper. The study, led by Dr Al ...

Alaska natives, who have hunted Iliamna Lake seals for centuries, describe the seals as fatter, larger and darker in color than their saltwater neighbors, with a unique fur pattern. Given Iliamna Lake ...