BLANC-SABLON, Québec -- Harp seal pups -- with their beady eyes and soft, pillowy fur -- are tremendously adorable. Yet new heartbreaking images show the pups in danger, stranded on beaches as sea ice ...

“Canadians are hypocrites,” said Sean Twist in the London, Ontario, Free Press. We just love to “pat ourselves on the back” about what wonderful people we are. How peace-loving. How tolerant. How ...

Forget Shark Week – this time of year is all about seal season. The light-colored seal that popped up on the sand on Coney Island Wednesday is part of a yearly spate of beached seals in and around the ...

The rescued and rehabilitated harp seal looks at the ocean after being released back into the wild April 8. Screenshot of video by the Marine Mammal Stranding Center A seal galumphs excitedly toward ...

A rescued harp seal that seemed to be on the road to recovery suddenly took a sharp turn for the worse on Wednesday and had to be euthanized, the Marine Mammal Stranding Center said Thursday. “This ...

Human curiosity likely killed a young seal. The female harp seal, the second rescued by a Riverhead nonprofit this week, initially appeared to be in good health when it was spotted Thursday morning on ...

The Marine Mammal Stranding Center in Brigantine, New Jersey, welcomed a big new patient last week. A 154-pound harp seal was hauled out of Brant Beach in Long Beach Island on March 8. In a post on ...

A yearling harp seal came ashore in New York with a deep sea lamprey stuck up its nose. Rescuers removed the lamprey with surgery and the seal is recovering. Facebook screenshot A harp seal came ...

SUSSEX COUNTY- Another young seal pup was rescued on the beach near Faithful Steward Crossing, just north of the Indian River Inlet Bridge on Friday. The MERR Institute says that the one-year-old harp ...