A rescued harbor seal got to celebrate New Year’s Eve in the wild after being released on Tuesday, according to Mystic ...

Harbor seals pups will soon start to populate the beaches in the northeastern U.S. during seal pupping season. Harbor seals generally bear young from May to June in the northeastern U.S., according to ...

These volunteers work tirelessly to protect one of the region’s most sensitive marine mammals and have quietly built one of ...

Sugar Plum the harbor seal was returned to the ocean by Mystic Aquarium on Dec. 31, 2025. (Mystic Aquarium)CHARLESTOWN, R.I. ...

If you ever plan on scuba diving in the coastal waters of Europe, Asia, or North America, you need to learn a bit about handling a seal encounter first. Many seals, including the harbor seal shown in ...

There are only five seal populations worldwide that live year-round in freshwater habitats. The Baikal seal, probably the most well-known, lives in the deepest, oldest lake in the world, 1,600 ...

Seattle’s Golden Gardens is one of the most popular places for harbor seals and their babies to hang out, and in late summer and early fall you might just be lucky enough to see one. “Harbor Seals are ...

As I begin to gear up for my summer job as a naturalist in southeast Alaska, I start running through the flora and fauna that I will need to know about out there. The temperate rainforests of ...

New Jersey's harbor seal population will be tagged and tracked for the first time thanks to a grant gifted to Stockton University from the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection. The ...

Seals are semi-aquatic marine mammals. They’re also known as pinnipeds, which means ‘fin-footed’, referring to the large flippers they have for arms and legs. Combined with their streamlined, ...