According to Marine Mammals of Maine, harp seals are born in the Arctic in February and March on pack ice and are nursed on high-fat milk for 12 days, so a pup from this species in our region is rare.

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 ...

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’s journey is ...

A harp seal pup sits on a snow-covered beach near the town of Blanc-Sablon, Québec, in early March. Normally harp seals give birth and raise their pups on sea ice in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, but ...

More than 600,000 hooded seals live across the North Atlantic and Arctic Ocean, ... Hooded seal pups are weaned off the milk in just four days, the shortest time for any mammal.

His work studying harp seal pups is featured in BBC One’s Frozen Planet II and he appears as a guest expert in the new Frozen Planet II Science Live Lesson for 7-11 year-olds, which looks at the ...

The seal that was found on Coney Island was determined to be a harp seal – an Arctic species that Pryor says regularly come down to the waters around New York during the colder months.

A female harbor seal pup that was found injured at Monmouth Beach in December, was released back to the wild after being treated by the Marine Mammal Stranding Center in Brigantine. The seal was ...

D:It's time to go again to the A Moment of Science mailbag. A listener writes in . . . Dear A Moment of Science: I've heard that global warming and melting ice and snow in the Arctic is killing ...

If you see a seal pup, it is essential that you don’t disturb or move it. Harbor seals pups will soon start to populate the beaches in the northeastern U.S. during seal pupping season.