How does a dolphin or seal even get bird flu? Most likely through contact with sick birds – or eating their carcasses.
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An expert explains why the H5N1 strain is such a threat to seals worldwide.
The Australian sea lion’s unique breeding cycle may give sea lion mothers more time to teach their pups life skills.
The mystery surrounding a forgotten marine mammal, a remote archipelago and man-made pollution.
Grey seals are now common in the UK – but their status remains fragile.
The fossilised seal traces date back about 75,000 years.
Microphones on the seafloor recorded life under the Antarctic ice for two years – inadvertently catching seal trills and chirps that are above the range of human hearing. Could they be for navigation?
Our new research has more than doubled the known fossil record of seals in Australia.
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