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Friends of Horsey Seals, an organization that protects Atlantic grey seals, was called to a Norfolk beach after a visitor spotted a seal in distress. The seal, named Bongo, had a plastic ring ...
Their species name is “gray seal,” Halichoerus grypus, and they live off the coast of the North Atlantic. Gray seals can reach 10 feet long and weigh nearly 900 pounds.
The grey seal in the Baltic Sea was highly endangered, at the end of the 1970s there were only 5,000 animals left out of the original 90,000. Since then, the seal population has recovered and ...
A juvenile gray seal was spotted at the Virginia Beach Oceanfront near 33rd Street on March 17, 2025. The seal went back into the Atlantic the next morning. (Jessica Lee) ...
Baltic grey seals are genetically isolated from the closest grey seal populations in the Atlantic. They are generally slightly smaller and, ...
A Grey seal pup injured by a section of nylon net that wrapped around its neck is recovering Thursday from serious wounds after being rescued on a Monmouth County Beach.
Canadian scientists are developing a new way to assess what grey seals are eating in the northwest Atlantic — part of a federal government effort to understand the animals' impact on fish stocks.
Harp seal herds eat more Atlantic cod in one year than Newfoundland & Labrador’s fish harvesters caught during the 30-year period from 1992 to 2021. SOURCES: Stenson, G.B. 2013.
A grey seal found stranded and blind more than a decade ago on an island in Maine has given birth at a Chicago-area zoo and is now "a very attentive mother" to her newborn, zoo officials said Friday.
In this post from WTNH News 8 in New Haven, Connecticut, police keep a watchful eye on a gray seal pup who mysteriously made his way into downtown. This isn’t the first time the young seal left ...