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Whales, dolphins, seals: newcomers crowd into British waters...

The waters around the British Isles could soon be home to several new species of mammals as a rising number of foreign visitors are being reported around our coasts. Experts believe the rare sightings of cetaceans from tropical climes cou [...]

Posted On : Dec, 05 2011 | Comments : 0

23 seals clubbed to death in New Zealand

Attackers clubbed 23 fur seals to death, including newborn pups, at a New Zealand breeding colony re-established two decades ago after the species was nearly wiped out by hunting. Some of the eight bludgeoned pups were just days old [...]

Posted On : Dec, 06 2010 | Comments : 0

Woodbridge snow plow driver finds wandering seal

A township snow plow driver was startled to find a seal wandering along Sixth Avenue in the Port Reading section of the township early this morning. The adult harp seal was discovered about 5 a.m., and police and a township control [...]

Posted On : Feb, 11 2010 | Comments : 0

Seal makes a splash in Pulborough

MARINE mammal medics from British Divers Marine Life Rescue are monitoring a seal which swam 18 miles in-land.The harbour seal is thought to be in good condition and healthy.The charity are asking people to keep dogs under control and keep [...]

Posted On : Oct, 15 2009 | Comments : 0

350-Pound Seal Gets New Home

The 9-year-old seal, named Isaac, is the first male resident of the Aquarium's New Balance Foundation Marine Mammal Center. He will join Cordova, Ursula and JD, all females, who opened the new center earlier this month. Isaac actually arri [...]

Posted On : Jul, 24 2009 | Comments : 0

Fur seal enjoys a sunny day in the suburbs

At 9am on Wednesday, Conservation Department officers heard about a fur seal enjoying summer on the banks of Kingswell Creek in Invercargill.The easy-going marine mammal swam about 1.2km into suburban Clifton to the point where Elles Rd mee [...]

Posted On : Jan, 17 2009 | Comments : 0

Hungry seals 'steer by the stars'

Seals can identify a single star in the night sky and navigate by it, scientists have discovered. Navigating in the open ocean is essential for seals to move between foraging grounds that may be hundreds of kilometres apart. This is the fir [...]

Posted On : Aug, 01 2008 | Comments : 0

Marine Mammal Protection Act Was Enacted 35 Years Ago to Pro...

Ocean Conservancy celebrates the 35th anniversary of the Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA) on October 21st. The MMPA is a federal law that was established in 1972 to protect marine animals such as large whales, dolphins, seals and s [...]

Posted On : Oct, 29 2007 | Comments : 0

Home found for one of center's seals

Federal officials said yesterday they had found a home in that Midwestern city for a female gray seal that has spent the last six months in a Brigantine facility recuperating from a broken back.The Indianapolis Zoo will welcome the 7-month- [...]

Posted On : Aug, 30 2007 | Comments : 0

Hooded Seal

Cystophora cristata The hooded seal is so named because of a large elastic nasal cavity, or “hood”, extending from the nostrils to the forehead which, when fully inflated, resembles a large black rubber ball. The “ [...]

Posted On : Aug, 20 2007 | Comments : 0

The Ross seal

The Ross seal (Ommatophoca rossii) is one of a kind, it is the only seal whose geographic range is confined to the Antarctic. They are found at areas of average to densely-packed ice, and the places they inhabit are quite isolated, and diff [...]

Posted On : Aug, 06 2007 | Comments : 0

Weddell Seal

The Weddell Seal (Leptonychotes weddellii) could be found scattered all over the Antartic but also on (at least) 15 islands nearby. They are arctic region dwellers, both on fast ice and on sea, migrating is something they do not do, and bei [...]

Posted On : Jul, 04 2007 | Comments : 0

Mediterranean Monk Seal

The biological name of this marine animal is Monachus monachus It is now known to be an endangered species. Once common along the Mediterranean and Black Sea coasts and on the Atlantic shores of northwest Africa, the Canary Is [...]

Posted On : Jun, 22 2007 | Comments : 0

Protest Against the Brutal Killing of Harp Seals by Canadian...

Canada's Fisheries Minister Loyola Hearn said 270,000 harp seals would be killed in the annual commercial hunt, deemed “the largest marine mammal massacre in the world” by animal rights groups. The harvest is down 65,0 [...]