A premature harbor seal was rescued in early May after it was found abandoned in Kenai. (Courtesy Alaska SeaLife Center) The Alaska SeaLife Center in Seward admitted a premature harbor seal pup for ...

There are only five seal populations worldwide that live year-round in freshwater habitats. The Baikal seal, probably the most well-known, lives in the deepest, oldest lake in the world, 1,600 ...

On Sept. 7, a baby sea otter was found with his dying mother on a remote beach near Happy Valley, south of Ninilchik, only accessible by ATV. (Emily Pomeroy/Alaska SeaLife Center) The Alaska SeaLife ...

Firsthand observations of a wolf hunting and killing a harbor seal and a group of wolves hunting and consuming a sea otter on Alaska's Katmai coast have led scientists to reconsider assumptions about ...

A wolf attacks a seal in coastal Alaska. Researchers from Oregon State University, the National Park Service, and the Alaska Department of Fish and Game recently published a paper outlining the first ...

KENAI — Dozens gathered at North Kenai Beach on Thursday to watch the Alaska SeaLife Center’s Wildlife Response Program release a pair of young harbor seals into Cook Inlet. According to information ...

Five hundred years ago, in a mountain-rimmed ocean fjord in southeast Alaska, Tlingit hunters armed with bone-tipped harpoons eased their canoes through chunks of floating ice, stalking seals near Sít ...

As I begin to gear up for my summer job as a naturalist in southeast Alaska, I start running through the flora and fauna that I will need to know about out there. The temperate rainforests of ...

If you ever plan on scuba diving in the coastal waters of Europe, Asia, or North America, you need to learn a bit about handling a seal encounter first. Many seals, including the harbor seal shown in ...

Wielding a sharpened piece of volcanic glass, Tim Ackerman sliced into the thawing carcass of a harbor seal. “You want to keep parallel to the hide like this, as close as you can to the skin,” ...

Crowell, Aron L. 2020. "The 1960s - 1970s Harbor Seal Crash in Alaska: A Historical and Ecological Perspective." In Arctic Crashes: People and Animals in the Changing North. Krupnik, Igor and Crowell, ...