The discovery of butchered seals at a popular West Auckland beach has triggered a Department of Conservation investigation.

Two seals were found at Muriwai beach without their heads last month.

Hawaii’s endangered monk seals are beloved creatures and highly protected by state law. Yet scientists have been unable to ...

A die-off last year at St. Paul Island, the first compelling case of fatal saxitoxin poisoning in marine mammals, comes as ...

Of six Guadalupe fur seals, the PMMC has found stranded, Pudge is the only to survive. SeaWorld has released only six rescued Guadalupe fur seals this year. When Pudge was found, Deming estimated ...

Roughly 80 Guadalupe fur seal pup have been found stranded in 2015, ... Roughly 80 seal pups have been found stranded in 2015, 8 times the normal rate. Sign Up for Our Ideas Newsletter POV.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Alaska’s northern fur seal population for three decades has been classified as depleted, but the marine mammals are showing up in growing numbers at an unlikely ...

Cape fur seals, also known as brown fur seals, live in the Southern Hemisphere. They have two subspecies: one off the coast of South Africa and another, the Australian fur seals, that live off ...

A northern fur seal pup rescued from Newport Beach pier last fall by the Pacific Marine Mammal Center was recently released back to the ocean, with hopes she returns to the Channel Islands where ...

A beloved seal at Mystic Aquarium has died. Adak, a northern fur seal, came to live at Mystic Aquarium as a pup in 2016 after ...

The baby fur seals look back up at me, watching me with their glossy black eyes. They don’t recognize my voice—I am not their mother. But they still whimper up at me, just in case I might be ...

Hunting was banned in the U.S. under the Fur Seal Act of 1966 and the Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972, but seals and sea lions had already suffered from the mass slaughter.