Over 400 fur seal pups were found resting in an inlet at the Farallon Islands National Wildlife Refuge off the coast of San Francisco — and the adorable sight was caught on video. “I was amazed to see them all piled in there, getting tossed around like they were in a washing machine,” the refuge’s manager, Gerry … Read more
“It’s like a wildfire is raging under the ocean, and it is invisible to most people. I feel like my job is to raise the alarm and to keep saying, ‘We’re running out of time,’ ” says Cristina Mittermeier, considered one of the world’s most influential conservation photographers. The Mexico native has spent over three decades … Read more
SEATTLE — It’s a good thing seals aren’t on a humpback whale’s menu. A photograph by a whale-watching naturalist captured a seemingly bewildered seal in the mouth of a humpback whale after the giant marine mammal accidentally gulped it last Thursday in the waters off Anacortes, Washington. The food mix-up began while a Blue Kingdom … Read more
To live in the Big Apple, they had to train like Rambo. Sylvester Stallone was so nervous about his daughters Sophia and Sistine living in NYC that he hired Navy SEALs to train them in self-defense — and even had them chase chickens Rocky-style. “It was the hardest. It was about six hours we were in those … Read more
Seals have musical flow on the ice floe. The semi-aquatic sea critters are one of the few mammals with a sense of rhythm — and can differentiate between tempo and style of beats, according to a new study. While biologists previously thought only vocalization-learning animals such as humans and songbirds have the skill, Dutch researchers … Read more