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.

A harp seal pup seeks shelter from the relentless winds that scour the sea ice covering the Gulf of St. Lawrence. ... The loss of Arctic sea ice has been monitored since the 1970s.

Image caption, The seal pup was spotted at Cove Bay 15 September 2021 A young seal of a species normally found in Arctic waters is being cared for after turning up in a bay in Aberdeen.

How a Seal Pup Died With a Plastic Wrapper in Its Stomach. ... which are common in Scotland. But finding a harp seal, which generally live in the Arctic, was unusual.

Ringed seal pup on the ice during a snow storm (Pusa hispida), Svalbard, Norway Getty According to NOAA’s Arctic Report Card , there is a long-term trend in declining snow cover in the Arctic.

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 ...

Bearded seals and ringed seals depend on Arctic sea ice for their survival — ice that’s melting due to climate change. Now, after nearly 15 years of advocacy by the Center for Biological Diversity, ...

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’s journey is ...