New recordings show Hawaiian monk seals use many more sounds than scientists ever realized.

One female seal displayed postmortem attentive behavior (PAB) for at least 20 days, the longest documented case in pinnipeds and among the longest for any mammal. Their paper documents a previously ...

Researchers discovered that Hawaiian monk seals use a surprisingly complex range of underwater sounds, including new call types never documented before.

Leopard seals are an abundant species of predator in Antarctica. These large, carnivorous sea mammals live in the water and around the ice of one of the most unfriendly and harshest environments on ...

Learn how the harbor seal became Rhode Island’s state animal and what this whiskered swimmer says about the Ocean State.

Drakes Beach in the Point Reyes National Seashore is temporarily closed to accommodate elephant seals that have set up camp for the breeding season. The annual ritual has brought at least 30 males to ...

A surprising technique has helped scientists observe how Earth’s oceans are changing, and it’s not using specialized robots or artificial intelligence. It’s tagging seals. Several species of seals ...