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NORWALK, CT – Floor-to-ceiling windows offer great underwater views of the seals in “Pinniped Cove,” an enormous new seal habitat opening June 8 in The Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk. Guests also can ...

The Maritime Aquarium welcomed a couple of new flippered friends to its Pinniped Cove exhibit in early January. The new Harbor seals, Feisty (a 33-year-old male) and Gracie (a 20-year-old female), ...

Pinnipeds -- a group including seals, sea lions and walruses -- are relatively recently derived marine mammals that evolved from terrestrial carnivorans and reentered the marine environment. Their ...

Biologists require robust phylogenies to put findings in an evolutionary context, and recent decades have seen extensive use of usually sequence-based data for phylogenetic inference. Although ...

A central paradigm in conservation biology is that population bottlenecks reduce genetic diversity and population viability. In an era of biodiversity loss and climate change, understanding the ...

The tension is palpable as two marine life rescuers wait beneath a relentless July sun. They hold large boards with which to corner a mass of brown and flippers that remains as still as they are.

Researchers have found a fossilized ancestor of modern seals and sea lions that they say represents an evolutionary step in the organisms' transition from land-dwelling mammals to the aquatic ...

LOS ANGELES COUNTY, CA — A sick sea lion rescued from a Los Angeles County creek earlier this year had two bullets in its head, a rescue nonprofit announced Thursday. The sea lion, named Confetti, was ...