NORWALK, CT – Floor-to-ceiling windows offer great underwater views of the seals in “Pinniped Cove,” an enormous new seal habitat opening June 8 in The Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk. Guests also can ...

Pinnipeds -- a group including seals, sea lions and walruses -- are relatively recently derived marine mammals that evolved from terrestrial carnivorans and reentered the marine environment. Their ...

Biologists require robust phylogenies to put findings in an evolutionary context, and recent decades have seen extensive use of usually sequence-based data for phylogenetic inference. Although ...

The Maritime Aquarium welcomed a couple of new flippered friends to its Pinniped Cove exhibit in early January. The new Harbor seals, Feisty (a 33-year-old male) and Gracie (a 20-year-old female), ...

The tension is palpable as two marine life rescuers wait beneath a relentless July sun. They hold large boards with which to corner a mass of brown and flippers that remains as still as they are.

As state officials raise the issue of whether to consider the removal of sea lions and seals for the sake of reviving endangered salmon populations, research continues on the mammals’ impacts. In ...

NORWALK, Conn. (WTNH) — On Tuesday, the Maritime Aquarium unveiled the largest exhibit in its history. They built a new harbor seal habitat called Pinniped Cove. RELATED: Want to swim with sharks?

LOS ANGELES COUNTY, CA — A sick sea lion rescued from a Los Angeles County creek earlier this year had two bullets in its head, a rescue nonprofit announced Thursday. The sea lion, named Confetti, was ...

WACO, Texas (Nov. 2, 2021) – Pinnipeds — a group including seals, sea lions and walruses — are relatively recently derived marine mammals that evolved from terrestrial carnivorans and reentered the ...