ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) – Polar bears get fat eating ringed seals, and to avoid that fate, Alaska’s smallest pinniped digs out snow caves on the sea ice, where they surface to breathe and give birth.

Climate change is scary news for seals in many more ways than one. Besides degrading and eliminating necessary sea-ice habitat, warming depletes their prey, makes them more vulnerable to predators and ...

WASHINGTON (CN) - Despite sea ice reaching the lowest levels in recorded history, the National Marine Fisheries Service announced it will delay listing specific populations of ice-dependent bearded ...

The critically endangered Saimaa ringed seal, which inhabits Lake Saimaa in Finland, has extremely low genetic diversity and this development seems to continue, according to a recent study.

Moves are being made to automate the identification of Saimaa ringed seals. This would bring new kinds of real-time information on how the extremely endangered species behaves, the movements of ...

Finland rethinks its national animal as the Saimaa ringed seal challenges the brown bear’s 40-year reign—scientists back the ...

Federal officials on Tuesday proposed designating an area more than twice the size of California as critical habitat to protect ringed seals, animals dependent on dwindling Arctic sea ice and snow for ...

A recent study reveals that the Saimaa ringed seal is evolutionally much more differentiated than previously known. Indeed, researchers suggest that instead of a subspecies, it should be considered ...

A federal appeals court ruled on Monday that Arctic ringed seals must be protected under the Endangered Species Act because of their reliance on the sea ice, which is rapidly disappearing as the ...

Climate change is scary news for seals in many more ways than one. Besides degrading and eliminating necessary sea-ice habitat, warming depletes their prey, makes them more vulnerable to predators and ...