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Seals are pinnipeds, a group of animals with three separate familiesphocidae, otaridae, and odobenidaethat are the only mammals that feed in the water and breed on land.
Seals are pinnipeds, a group of animals with three separate familiesphocidae, otaridae, and odobenidaethat are the only mammals that feed in the water and breed on land.
New research shows Weddell seals avoid making extreme dives for prey during midday, allowing the seals to keep diving over and over without having to pause for long. This allows them to.
Toxin that causes paralytic shellfish poisoning blamed for Alaska seal deaths
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The night approaches quickly. A harbor seal plunges into the water, diving deep as the sunlight recedes. Through the dark, turbid waters, she searches for fish. Suddenly, the whiskers on.
A female grey seal nursing her pup on the beaches of Sable Island, Nova Scotia. Gray seals give birth once a year and females will quickly lose ~30% of their body mass while the pup triples in size during.
These enormous, blubbery marine mammals awkwardly belly-flop around on land, but are elegantly adapted for life in the twilight zonewhere they spend 90% of their at-sea time.
This past winter, on a cold, sandy island about 200 miles off the coast of Nova Scotia, a pair of shaggy wild horses supervised the efforts of a small group of seal researchers. They just.
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A staggering proportion of gray seals dont make it to their first birthday. WHOI biologist Michelle Shero is looking into the influence of iron in seal mothers milk on pup survival rates.
Seals equipped with sensors help researchers uncover fish abundance in the Pacific Ocean's twilight zone, providing valuable insights into deep-sea ecosystems.
Marine ecologist at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution is exploring new, non-invasive approaches to measuring the body mass of gray seals. (Photo by Michelle Shero, Woods Hole.
