WESTBROOK — A harp seal that was seen traveling between New London and Westbrook died at the Mystic Aquarium because of a health issue last week, an official said, but not before he left a last ...

A concerned resident sent a video of the seal — which seems to be a harp seal based on its markings — to the Advance/SILive.com. The resident gingerly circled the sea creature while recording ...

Of the five were three grey seal pups, one adult grey seal, and a yearling harp seal, according to the MERR Institute. MERR says two of the grey seal pups temporarily rested on the shore before ...

It's seal season in New York. The Department of Environmental Conservation is warning all New Yorkers to admire them from ...

A seal pup somehow survived scooting across all four lanes of Coastal Highway south of Delaware Seashore State Park recently. The Lewes-based nonprofit Marine Education, Research and Rehabilitatio ...

The mitochondrial DNA sequences analyzed in laboratories in York and Copenhagen indicate that the harbor seals came from current populations in Scotland, Norway, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea, while the ...

Four of the chemises are genetically similar to harbor seals from Scandinavia, Denmark and Scotland, while the fifth chemise is genetically similar to harp seals, likely from Greenland or Iceland.

Seal season in New York typically runs from March through May, but harbor, grey and harp seals can be seen as early as November in some parts of the state, according to the Department of ...