For several years, a team of researchers used underwater microphones to listen for seals at the edge of the Antarctic. Their initial findings indicate that sea-ice retreat has had significant effects ...

The 2025 harbor seal birthing season at the Children’s Pool in La Jolla is underway. By mid-March, approximately 50 pups had been born, with more expected. In 2024, over 60 viable seal pups were born.

This latest title in the "Of the World" series - the seventeenth - covers that fascinating group of animals whose evolution into their present forms and life-styles seems almost contradictory. While ...

The 2024 harbor seal birthing season at the Children’s Pool in La Jolla reached its peak around Valentine’s Day and finished in early March. There are about 50 seal pups learning to swim and fish, and ...

For several years, a team of researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute used underwater microphones to listen for seals at the edge of the Antarctic. Their initial findings, just released in the ...