A grey seal at Orford Ness, Suffolk’s first breeding colony A grey seal colony has established itself at a former Cold War weapons-testing site on the Suffolk coast. More than 130 grey seal pups have ...

Drakes Beach in the Point Reyes National Seashore is temporarily closed to accommodate elephant seals that have set up camp for the breeding season. The annual ritual has brought at least 30 males to ...

More than 300 seal pups have been born at a colony just a month into the breeding season, the National Trust has said. Last ...

Scientists have discovered a previously unknown breeding site used by the world's rarest seal species. Scientists have discovered a previously unknown breeding site used by the world's rarest seal ...

A pup was born Dec. 16 in the “maternity ward” area along the south end of the Piedras Blancas boardwalk near San Simeon. More will follow as the birth and breeding season unfolds through February. A ...

The storm rages all night and into the morning. When it subsides on a February afternoon at Point Reyes National Seashore, Sarah Allen hurries out to check on the elephant seals. It is near the end of ...

The first pup of the season was counted in late August [Cumbria Wildlife Trust] A record number of seal pups have been counted at a nature reserve as the breeding season draws to a close. Cumbria ...

PESCADERO – The first thing you notice is the sound, as you approach the beach at Año Nuevo State Park during the peak of elephant seal breeding season. To an untrained ear, it’s a din of honking, ...

December begins the elephant seal breeding season. Adults and pups are active. The first pup was born overnight on Dec. 15-16, in the rain. Seeing a pup born is exciting. Watch for females fussing and ...

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, ...

From a bird blind on Seal Island, puffins zoomed in from the sea with a rainbow of fish drooping from their beaks. They carried copper and golden juvenile haddock, redfish and white hake. Others had ...

Scientists have discovered a previously unknown breeding site used by the world's rarest seal species. The Mediterranean monk seal is classified as "endangered", with a total population of about 700.