An active offseason for marine life washing ashore along the Delaware coast continued, as five more seals beached this ...

The Marine Education, Research & Rehabilitation Institute (MERR) had a busy holiday weekend with their volunteers responding ...

In medieval Europe, scribes often wrapped their books in the hairy hides of animals like deer or boar to act […] ...

A 100-year-old stuffed hippo has helped biologists better understand how mammals use their whiskers. Billie, a former ...

A seal pup somehow survived scooting across all four lanes of Coastal Highway south of Delaware Seashore State Park recently.

It's seal season in New York. The Department of Environmental Conservation is warning all New Yorkers to admire them from ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — A seal was spotted lounging on a South Shore beach on Saturday, startling residents by its sudden ...

Biomolecular analysis shows that unusual book coverings are made of sealskin, hinting at far-flung trade networks.

Historians were surprised when analyses revealed Catholic monks used pinniped hides for the protective outer layer on some manuscripts, rather than skins from the local boars and deer ...

There is an abundance of spectacular wildlife found across New York state, though residents should always proceed with ...

An international team of archaeologists, bioinformatic specialists, and historians has discovered that many medieval books ...

Specifically, the skins were identified as coming from harbor seals, harp seals, and bearded seals. These findings contradict the previous belief that medieval book bindings were made exclusively ...