Scientists have learned that northern elephant seals — massive creatures found along the Pacific Coast of North America — cobble together a couple hours of sleep using underwater power naps.

Albino Seal Pup Spotted in Russia Gets Nicknamed 'the Ugly Duckling': It's a 'Rare Event' "This is a clear albino without any pigmentation even in eyes," said one marine mammal biologist of the ...

He says grey seals raid salmon fishing nets, which would be easier if they remembered which action released the fish. Animal Cognition DOI: 10.1007/s10071-019-01286-x ...

Massachusetts once offered a bounty for gray seals. After conservation efforts, the New England population bounced back, and Google Earth images show more seals than scientists had previously counted.

Open water swimming can be strangely claustrophobic. Immerse your face in cloudy water and your view might dwindle to a few centimeters. Yet, harbor seals (Phoca vitulina) manage to negotiate the ...

Once the seals were comfortable with the game, the team kept track of the animals’ choices as they watched the dots in the simulations.The simulations appeared to show that the seal was heading ...

Members of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) watch an elephant seal cornered on a street in Gordon's Bay, near Cape Town, South Africa, Tuesday, May 27, 2025. / AP ...

And when the team plotted the seals’ successes, it was clear that the animals were perfectly capable of determining which direction they were travelling in based simply on the dots streaming in ...