A study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences reveals that the Saimaa ringed seal is evolutionarily more differentiated than previously known. In fact, the study ...

S aimaa ringed seal mothers and their newborns have huddled in pupping lairs along the shores of this inland archipelago in southeastern Finland since time immemorial. Expectant females shape ...

Polar bears get fat eating ringed seals, and to avoid that fate, Alaska's smallest pinniped digs out snow caves on the sea ice, where they surface to breathe and give birth. Global warming is ...

Ringed seals (Phoca (pusa) hispida), which are the most abundant seals in the Arctic, rely on stable sea ice to survive. The ice is where they rest, molt and reproduce. But that ice is ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — The federal government on Friday proposed listing two seals that depend on sea ice as threatened species because of the projected loss of ice from climate warming. The ...

When a ringed seal pup wakes up, all she sees around is blue ice. From the first moments of her life in an ice cave to venturing out to the Arctic on her own, every step of the pup is described in ...

Ringed, Bearded, and Spotted Seals off Alaska Threatened by Global Warming. SAN FRANCISCO— Today the Center for Biological Diversity filed a scientific petition with the National Marine Fisheries ...

'This small seal needs sea ice to thrive, wrote the Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada, or COSEWIC, which declared ringed seals a species of special concern in November of 2019.

The SSPCA have been caring for the ringed seal – a species normally found in arctic waters – since August 27, and will release him on Shetland tomorrow. All Sections. Dare to be Honest.

A young seal of a species normally found in Arctic waters is being cared for after turning up in a bay in Aberdeen. The Scottish SPCA said it was alerted to the male ringed seal by British Divers ...

In May 2008, the Center filed a petition to protect ringed, bearded and spotted seals under the Endangered Species Act. The administration has one year to finalize today’s decision to list bearded and ...

First came the polar bear. Now, the federal government has added two other marine mammals to the list of creatures threatened with extinction because of vanishing sea ice in a warming Arctic. The ...