Pinnipeds, colloquially known as seals, are a widely distributed and diverse clade of fin-footed, semiaquatic marine mammals. They comprise the extant families Odobenidae (whose only living member is ...

This latest title in the "Of the World" series - the seventeenth - covers that fascinating group of animals whose evolution into their present forms and life-styles seems almost contradictory. While ...

This week, Utah's Hogle Zoo is celebrating National Zoo Keeper Week. Jenny went to the Zoo to talk with a member of the Rocky Shores animal care team. Guests can watch from the shoreline as Rocky ...

This group includes seals, sea lions and walruses, all animals that live in the ocean but are able to come on land for long periods of time. A minimum of 12,000 are probably present at any given time ...

A cross-disciplinary team of researchers has come up with a new approach to study fine scale distribution patterns of hauled out seals. In their study, published in Royal Society Open Science, they ...

Researchers have found a fossilized ancestor of modern seals and sea lions that they say represents an evolutionary step in the organisms' transition from land-dwelling mammals to the aquatic ...

A visit to the aquarium is often just as educational as it is exciting. It's rare to get such a close glimpse of marine animals like tropical fish and sea otters, but aquariums allow this and so much ...

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 ...

While the public is barred from the end of the damaged Santa Cruz Municipal Wharf following the catastrophic collapse on Dec. 23, sea lions have continued to call the place home. According to the ...