They comprise the extant families Odobenidae (whose only living member is the walrus), Otariidae (the eared seals: sea lions and fur seals), and Phocidae (the earless, or true seals). Seals range ...

The hooded seal cub has been fattened at mind-boggling speed by industrial-strength mother's milk and will be fine as soon as it is in the sea. This is the element in which seals are so at home ...

A Greek charity has been treating dozens of orphaned, sick and injured Mediterranean monk seals, rare marine mammals whose population had dwindled so dramatically that the species at one point faced ...