The International Union for Conservation of Nature has reclassified both the emperor penguin and the Antarctic fur seal as ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (FOX 5/KUSI) — Two young seals were rescued on different San Diego-area beaches just about a week apart. On Saturday, Jan. 3, ...

In 1902, British explorer Robert Falcon Scott spotted a large group of large black and white birds at Ross Island, Antarctica. This was among the many milestones of Scott’s famous Discovery expedition ...

When Australian fur seals get back to land they speed up their heart to clear waste products and replenish oxygen stores. The ...

The emperor penguin population could be cut in half by the 2080s, IUCN predicted. The Antarctic fur seal population was already halved between 2000 and 2026, the agency noted. Experts attributed the ...

Two rehabilitated Guadalupe fur seals, a male found on a rock outcropping off Laguna Beach and a female found on a dock in San Pedro, have been released back into the ocean by an animal care team from ...

WASHINGTON — Two iconic polar species — the emperor penguin and the Antarctic fur seal — could be moving toward extinction, according to a new assessment from an international organization. The ...

Today, northern fur seals are primarily native to Alaska and Siberia and are rarely seen on the Central Coast of California. But up until 1,000 years ago, these animals bred abundantly on the beaches ...

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