Seal pups are born with thick, cream-colored fur called lanugo. The fur traps heat to help them stay warm. Young seals shed their lanugo when they reach around three weeks old. So the aquarium ...

“That’s a very late-stage pup, but he still has the lanugo on him,” she noted while observing the footage. White fur on seal pups, known as lanugo, helps keep them warm during cold winter months ...

A seal pup whose urban rescue tugged at the nation's heartstrings on social media in mid-February has died, a Connecticut aquarium said Monday. The New Haven Police Department found Chappy ...

Marine rescuers saved an injured seal pup from a beach at a Delaware state park, photos show. Screen grab of the Marine Education, Research and Rehabilitation Institute's post on Facebook A baby ...

But at his age, she says, he should be closer to 100 pounds (45.3 kilograms). Seal pups, she says, usually wean from their mothers at three to four weeks old, at which point they fend for themselves.

Video captured near a Northern California beach shows the first scientific documentation of coyotes preying on harbor seal pups. Researchers at The University of California Santa Cruz captured ...

Callum the grey seal pup was found with rope entangled around his neck A seal pup found dragging more than 7ft (2m) of rope around its neck has been saved. British Divers Marine Life Rescue (BDMLR ...