SeaWorld San Diego and the Alaska SeaLife Center are the only two facilities in North America where the public can see the threatened seals up close.

SeaWorld San Diego has welcomed two rescued ringed seals, Mavsaq and Taku, to its Wild Arctic exhibit to help educate ...

Vocal communication is a primary key to survival for many species, including the Arctic Ocean's bearded seals. According to the National Ocean and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), bearded seals live ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A bearded seal swimming in Arctic waters in Svalbard, Norway. Their name comes from the long and sensitive facial whiskers that ...

Arctic seals are being pushed closer to extinction by climate change and more than half of bird species around the world are declining under pressure from deforestation and agricultural expansion, ...

Three Arctic seal species face a rising risk of extinction as global warming accelerates sea ice loss. What makes these seals ...

The Saimaa ringed seal is not the only seal species suffering from global warming, as the habitat of seals living in the Arctic is shrinking as we speak, said Brendan P. Kelly, a marine ecologist ...

New research shows a single year of warmer-than-average Arctic temperatures can cause malnutrition in Arctic seals, intensifying risks to Inuit food security and northern ecosystems already under ...

A harp seal lounges on a frozen float in Belfast Harbor in 2019. Such Arctic visitors occasionally appear along the Maine coast during especially cold winters. Credit: Nicolle Littrell Earlier this ...

Ringed seals are among the most common marine mammals in the Canadian Arctic. They strongly rely on sea ice as a habitat, breathing through holes they maintain in the frozen surface, giving birth in ...