But to others, they’re Public Enemy No. 1 — a messy, fish-eating shark magnet that needs to be culled. Chatham-based commercial fisherman Nick Muto is one of the latter. “Seals used to be a ...

A study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences reveals that the Saimaa ringed seal is evolutionarily more differentiated than previously known. In fact, the study suggests ...

Seal diets also vary by location. For example, seals that live in the colder waters of the Arctic and Antarctic, like ringed seals and harp seals, eat more fish and crustaceans.

And seals eat fish. Sometimes right out of the fishermen’s nets. They bite the belly out, leaving the bones, so that dinner won’t show up in an analysis of stomach contents.

About 500 harbor seals that rest on the bay's beaches eat the same kinds of fish caught by local anglers, and the seals live in waters shared by swimmers, surfers and kayakers.

And seals eat fish, sometimes right out of the fishermen’s nets. They bite the belly out, leaving the bones, so that dinner won’t show up in an analysis of stomach contents.

The vast majority of the time, gray seals are happy eating fish. But new research shows that they may, from time to time, eat other mammals—including members of their own species.

Researchers measured the amount of nitrogen and carbon in the whiskers, which tells them the kinds of animals the leopard ...

They have even fed the pinnipeds fish laced with lithium chloride, a noxious but not deadly chemical, and continue to use firecracker-like seal bombs. Read: A coveted fish is now a ‘climate ...

Eloise the grey seal. Theresa Keil National Aquarium Photographer. The seal pup (pictured above), who the aquarium found alone, quickly picked up eating fish, which is a good sign for her future.

Trained orcas in amusement parks draw millions of visitors, and movies about captive killer whales yearning for freedom make millions at the box office. But these large, black and white sea-going ...

To celebrate National Doughnut Day 2017, seals at the New England Aquarium are eating multi-colored fish doughnuts made out of gelatin and ice. Yum!