Pity the polar bears, and the baby seals. Yesterday, we received news via The Guardian of a Duke University study which found that stable winter sea ice, where harp seal pups are born and ...

Die, baby harp seal! It’s time for environmentalism to get ugly ... from Audubon, a polar bear perched with all four paws together like a performing bear in a circus, ...

MOSCOW — Forty-three softhearted Russian sailors who offered to risk their lives to save thousands of baby harp seals were ordered Saturday to drop the controversial rescue mission after reports ...

She has worked with harp seals on the Gulf of St. Lawrence, Canada, for over a decade. In 2011, Hayes was on a National Geographic assignment and had spent several days documenting the harp seal ...

Harp seals can grow up to 6 feet long and weigh 400 pounds. (NOAA) Harp seals mate and rear their young on the sea ice off the east coast of Canada in the spring and move north as the weather warms.

Their major prey is ringed seals, but they also hunt bearded seals, hooded seals, and harp seals. After catching a seal, polar bears will consume the fat and skin first, often leaving the rest of ...