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 failed to form ...

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 failed to form ...

A harp seal seen on the Magdalen Islands, Quebec, Canada. C. Dani & I. Jeske / De Agostini Picture Library via Getty Images For centuries, demand for that fur was booming business.

Hamill says harp seals can't give birth on land, only ice. Scientists estimate within the next 50 years, the Harp seals won't have any options left in the Gulf of Saint Lawrence.

ALBANY, N. Y. (AP) -- A silvery seal with soulful black eyes and a spotted coat is making a splash in the Hudson River 150 miles inland from the Atlantic. The New York state Department of ...

In 2006 fur made up $16.4 million of the $18 million worth of seal products Canada exported. Preliminary data from the Canadian government shows that sales of all seal products overseas plummeted ...

BRIGANTINE, New Jersey (KYW) — 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 ...