From Shoals to Hampton Harbor, gray seals are everywhere. Biologist Ellen Goethel shares what’s behind their summer 2025 surge — and why it matters.

Shark devours hooked striper off Cape Cod, seal with shark bite spotted off Boston Harbor Islands: ‘It’s been a crazy year for striped bass predations’ ...

A federal appeals court on Friday affirmed the National Marine Fisheries Service’s 2024 decision rejecting attempts to strip Arctic ringed seals of Endangered Species Act protections.

For the first time, scientists have made a definite link between the toxin produced by algae that causes paralytic shellfish poisoning and marine mammal deaths.

A die-off last year at St. Paul Island, the first compelling case of fatal saxitoxin poisoning in marine mammals, comes as more harmful algae is found farther north.

You now have more options to use easy-to-earn Alaska Airlines $99 Companion Fares to fly to Hawaii and beyond.

Three new patients have joined the Alaska SeaLife Center’s “growing” patient list, the center announced in a July 1 press release, including two orphaned harbor seal pups and an orphaned ...

18th-century boat found under Dubrovnik harbor during pipeline work Workers in Dubrovnik, Croatia, found an 18th-century wooden boat while installing a water pipeline this year.

A federal appeals court on Friday affirmed the National Marine Fisheries Service’s 2024 decision rejecting attempts to strip Arctic ringed seals of Endangered Species Act protections. The 9th U.S.

Killer whales are one of the most intelligent animals; only humans have a larger brain relative to their body size, according to the study.

A few years later, Towers saw another young female killer whale displaying the same behavior – this time, however, the orca “dropped a freshly killed harbor seal pup right beside my boat.” ...

Seals with orange floats at Point Defiance Park? Learn how NOAA and WDFW are tracking and studying harbor seals for research on habitat and diets.