"Although these seals no longer breed on the Antarctic mainland, we now have evidence to indicate they once did more than 1,000 years ago," Zhou said. Before discovering southern elephant seal DNA ...

When the carcasses of headless baby harbor seals began emerging on the Northern California coastline close to a decade ago, researchers hadn’t seen anything like it before. The thick mats of ice ...

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