Panagis hauls himself out of the pool at a rehabilitation center in Greece and scurries over for a delectable lunch: whole mackerel. It’s been about three months since the orphaned se ...

Once on the brink of extinction, the rare marine mammal's populations are rising, thanks to conservation efforts.

Panagis is one of dozens of Mediterranean monk seals, or Monachus monachus, that have been nursed back to health by Greece’s ...

In a story published on March 10, 2025 about monk seal rehab in Greece, The Associated Press erroneously reported that ...

Panagis hauls himself out of the pool at a rehabilitation center in Greece and scurries over for a delectable lunch: whole ...

Stefanos Tsitsipas, the Greek tennis sensation, is on the verge of reclaiming his spot among the world’s elite as he advances to his third final in Dubai, just one victory away from breaking back into ...

On its seal, as seen on this old banknote, alongside the name of the bank written in Pashto, in Arabic script at the top and in Latin at the bottom, there’s a text in ancient Greek “ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΜΕΓΑΛΟΥ ...

These Greek gods are often called the “Olympic gods” because some were said to live on Mt. Olympus, the highest mountain in Greece, towering over the Gulf of Thermaïkós. As captivating as they are, ...

A lost baby seal that was found wandering the streets of a Connecticut city over the weekend is safe and recovering, police said Tuesday. The baby male gray seal was discovered Sunday near the ...

A baby seal ventured into the big city this weekend, after galumphing — that's the technical term — his way into downtown New Haven, Conn. Police officers got a call about a possibly injured ...

NEW HAVEN, Conn. – A gray seal pup was found moseying through the streets of New Haven, Connecticut, over the weekend. Officers with the New Haven Police Department shared a video of the pup as he lay ...

The police in New Haven, Conn., found a young seal wandering the streets and aided in its rescue. “Maybe we should just start keeping mackerel in the cruisers,” one officer suggested.