Polar bears are among the planet's most iconic symbols of cold climate adaptation. They boast a thick layer of blubber, ...

Harp seals are an Arctic animal and a rare visitor to Scottish waters. The seal was found at Balmedie, near Aberdeen. Its cause of death has still to be investigated by Scottish Marine Animal ...

Poor or unstable ice can lead to more newborn seals ending up in the water before they are ready and dying. Seals may also be ...

“The Arctic is changing faster than anything else ... “An example would be harp seals and hooded seals, which we classify as different genera—but we’ve seen them hybridize in the ...

But in the case of harp seals, it’s really quite simple. If we lose the sea ice in the Arctic, we lose the harp seals. Dr James Grecian is a post-doctoral researcher in the Department of ...

Though he's from the area, this was his first time seeing a seal. Harp seals migrate from the Canadian Arctic and Greenland to the Gulf of St. Lawrence in the fall, attracted by the ice that forms ...

A harp seal that stopped for a rest on a Beverly beach over the weekend is back in the water. The harp seal was spotted resting on Independence Park Beach on Sunday morning, near the jetty at the ...

The whales may be suffering because the Arctic zooplankton on which they feed are being replaced by more temperate species that are harder to catch or less nutritious. Harp seals suffer directly ...

Amid a warming climate and disappearing traditional knowledge, Inuit communities in the Canadian Arctic are grappling ... up in an outfit made from a harp seal. Before a camping trip, a homemade ...

You have to be patient and be accepting of what the Arctic gives you,” he said. He was talking specifically about the ...

Harp seals live almost their entire lives in open ... are thrust from the safety of their mother’s womb into the frigid Arctic. filming wildlife is high stakes and high reward The team had ...