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Choose the meat, liver and heart of young grey seals (less than six weeks old) and apply standard sanitary measures when handling seals and their products.
The fossilised seal traces date back about 75,000 years.
Polar bears are increasingly seeking sustenance in human trash because of melting sea ice and a loss of hunting opportunities. The result is a rise in human-bear conflict – and dead bears.
North American red squirrels produce a range of sounds, but their distinctive rattle call may have more to do with identifying themselves than warning off other squirrels.
Researchers have discovered that great white sharks are more social than previously thought. Using specialized tags, they tracked six sharks and found that some stay close to each other when hunting.
The industry says the deterrent is necessary, but evidence suggests the devices pose a significant threat to some marine life, including maiming and killing seals.
Sealing is a more complicated issue than successful protests against it would suggest.
Ancient climate change doomed the monk seals that lived in Australian waters millions of years ago.
New research combines cutting-edge engineering with animal behaviour to explain the origins of efficient swimming in nature’s underwater acrobats: seals and sea lions.
By measuring how and when elephant seals sleep, researchers were able to figure out how elephant seals change their risk-taking behavior as they gain weight.
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?
Mermaids are not real, but are meaningful to people around the world.
This newly discovered ancient monk seal is challenging previous theories about how and where monachine seals evolved. It’s the biggest breakthrough in seal evolution research in about 70 years.
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Researchers are looking into why around 5,000 Cape fur seals were found dead on Namibia's coast.
Our new research has more than doubled the known fossil record of seals in Australia.
This study provides the first evidence that penguins emit sounds underwater when they hunt.
Clapping underwater takes real strength. But wild grey seals can do it, to warn off competitors and attract potential mates.
Diving animals are incredible athletes.
Climate change is shrinking Arctic sea ice and opening the region to ship traffic. Whales, seals and other marine mammals could be at risk unless nations adopt rules to protect them.
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Curator of Vertebrates, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
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