The marathon swim first gained media attention in 2011, sparking discussion about the resilience of polar bears and the ...

A seal pup that was found stranded has died, and now rescuers have a cause of death, Connecticut officials said. The gray ...

Archival photos show how Greenland became a Danish territory and why the United States is seeking to take control of the ...

Then the adults return to the water. Young seals remain on land to molt and grow their waterproof fur. They live off their blubber reserves for about 1-4 weeks before making their way to the ocean ...

Kate Riordan Weaning is a major transition in elephant seal life. Pups go from gaining weight fast — 200 pounds or more of blubber in a month — to metabolizing that blubber to sustain them for ...

A seal pup that was found stranded has died, and now rescuers have a cause of death, Connecticut officials said. The gray seal, later coined with the name Chappy, entered the Mystic Aquarium’s ...

Every winter, tens of thousands of elephant seals return to beaches along the California coast. Northern elephant seals were nearly extinct not too long ago, and ecologists have been tracking their ...

Once seals take to the water ... which either had to be surgically implanted below the blubber or monitored by someone standing nearby to receive data in real time, Shero said.

Northern elephant seal numbers are slowly yet steadily improving ... After being pushed near the point of extinction through hunting for blubber oil during the 19th century – fewer than 100 ...