Neil The Celebrity Seal Has 1.7 Million Fans — And Wildlife Officials Are Worried

Neil the Seal has charmed Tasmania and millions online, but wildlife officials warn his overwhelming popularity could put ...

What 'Neil the Seal' can teach us about seal behavior: Marine biologist explains

Neil the Seal became a social media sensation almost overnight. Neil is a 5-year-old male southern elephant seal who weighs ...

Neil the Seal can teach us plenty about seal behaviour. A marine biologist explains

Neil the Seal became a social media sensation almost overnight. Neil is a five-year-old male southern elephant seal who ...
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Watch how one baby seal stole milk from multiple mothers - then reached 227 kg

Some elephant seal pups have discovered an unusual shortcut to survival—they steal milk from other mothers. Meet the ...

This chaotic 2,000-pound seal has returned to sea – but leaves behind a conundrum

Without so much as a wave of his flipper, Neil the boisterous young elephant seal departed Tasmania this week, leaving behind ...
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Año Nuevo’s iconic elephant seal viewing areas are reopening after a bird flu outbreak. Scientists have been hard at work the entire time

A male elephant sale moves along the beach at Año Nuevo Coast Natural Preserve. Photo by Charles Russo. When biologist Patrick Robinson first spotted a dead elephant seal at Año Nuevo Coast Natural ...
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“He’s a 1,000kg wild marine predator that is very capable of hurting someone if startled.” Who is Neil the seal?

Neil is a southern elephant seal and twice a year for the past 12 years, he returns to land in a phenomenon known as ‘haulout ...
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"It looked like the beak of a Duck engrafted on the head of a quadruped." The venomous, electric, glow-in-the-dark strange creature that sweats milk.…

In 1799, George Shaw, a curator in the natural history department of the British Museum, received a strange skin in the mail.