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.

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 ...

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) ...

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 ...

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.

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.

A grey seal pup was rescued and released in Bethany Beach this week. The seal was brought in by Lewes-based Marine Education, Research & Rehabilitation Institute to Baltimore's National Aquarium ...

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.