Other facts. The crabeater seal has the largest population of any species of seal in the world. It is estimated there are 2 million to 75 million individual seals, according to the IUCN.

The seal population has increased from about 4,000, considered nearly extinct, in the late 1980s to about 50,000.

Seal facts include their ability to hold their breath underwater for long periods, their playful nature, and their thick blubber that insulates them.

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals today upheld a rejection of the state of Alaska’s petition to strip the Arctic ringed ...

You may have spotted a seal with an orange float attached to its back at Point Defiance Park in recent days. A Reddit user ...

This Sept. 5, 2006, file photo shows a bearded seal in Kotzebue, Alaska. (Michael Cameron/NOAA Fisheries Service via AP, file) (CN) — It’s back to the drawing board for the federal agency tasked with ...

“All of this critical habitat is occupied by members of the two seal species, which are among the most common marine mammals found in the Arctic region.” Yet Alaska does not officially challenge ...

Almost 3,600 seals have been counted in the Thames Estuary showing the habitat is still healthy, conservationists said. The Zoological Society of London (ZSL) teamed up with military helicopter ...

Harbor seals in Alaska’s icy fjords rely on icebergs calved from glaciers as critical habitats for giving birth, raising pups, and molting. A recent study reveals how climate-driven changes in ...

Recent storms have caused trouble for elephant seals at Central Coast beaches. Officials hope that a break in the rain will improve the condition of the elephant seals’ habitat.

Harbor seals off the coast of Alaska pick the icebergs on which they bask depending on the season, according to new research presented today at the American Geophysical Union’s annual meeting ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A judge in Alaska has set aside a federal agency's action designating an area the size of Texas as critical habitat for two species of threatened Arctic Alaska seals.