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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“Natchiq Grows Up: The Story of a Ringed Seal Pup and Her Changing Home” has its roots in scientific research about ringed seals in Northwest Alaska that was conducted in the 1980s.

'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.

A ringed seal in a tank at the Osaka Aquarium Kaiyukan, 2013. KAZUHIRO NOGI/AFP/Getty Images. This seal pup found in Aberdeen, Scotland, has been estimated to be between six and eight weeks of age.

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 ...

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 ...

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.