These days, our social media is full of eye-catching wildlife– from snow leopards climbing cliffs to dolphins flipping in the air. But seals often don’t get the spotlight they deserve. With their big, ...

North America’s seals are rebounding exponentially, as detailed in Alix Morris’s newly released book, A Year with the Seals. The tale highlights 61,000 harbor seals on the east coast and 400,000 grey ...

What can an elephant seal – a 4,000 pound, bellowing monstrosity that looks like a melted Yankee Candle – teach us about the world? Plenty, it turns out. “The animals are amazing. I mean, everything ...

Seals have a reputation for being the laid-back loungers of the animal kingdom, but there's a lot more going on beneath that sleek surface. Seals, with dive times that rival submarines and milk fat ...

The leopard seal is named for its black-spotted coat. The pattern is similar to that of the famous big cat, though the seal's coat is gray rather than golden in color. This seal is sometimes called ...

“The animals are amazing. I mean, everything they do is extreme,” said Daniel Costa, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at UC Santa Cruz. “They’re the deepest-diving pinniped and they dive ...