OSAKA--Breeding staff at the Osaka Aquarium Kaiyukan here have been working around the clock to make sure a ringed seal pup that looked like he was going to die at birth bulks up. The male pup ...

OSAKA--A ringed seal pup near death after its birth earlier this year and saved by aquarium staff here is now thriving and wowed visitors with his public debut on Aug. 18. Tsubaki Nakajima ...

The Arctic cod is the dominant prey in most localities. THREATS: The primary threat to the ringed seal is global warming, which melts the sea ice it depends on for giving birth, nursing pups, resting ...

The ringed seal and the bearded seal were both listed under the Endangered Species Act in 2012, but neither has received a recovery plan as the law requires. Both seal species rely on sea ice to give ...

The Saimaa ringed seal gives birth in a cave-like nest that it builds inside ... “If the seals have to give birth on bare ice, the pups have no shelter against predators, the cold and other ...