HONOLULU -- The U.S. federal government on Friday will significantly expand the critical habitat for endangered Hawaiian monk seals to include beaches and waters of the main Hawaiian Islands, ...

SAN FRANCISCO, California, July 2, 2008 (ENS) - Three conservation groups filed a formal petition today asking the federal government to protect areas on the main Hawaiian islands as critical habitat ...

Recent storms have caused trouble for elephant seals at Central Coast beaches. The Friends of the Elephant Seal say the recent storms have caused significant erosion and flooding on some of the ...

There’s perhaps no more fascinating Bay Area day trip than hanging with the bellowing animals of Año Nuevo State Park.

HONOLULU, Hawaii – The National Marine Fisheries Service today issued a final rule protecting almost 7,000 square miles of critical habitat for Hawaiian monk seals, among the world’s most endangered ...

A bearded seal rests on ice in 2011 off the coast of Alaska. (Photo by John Jansen/NOAA’s Alaska Fisheries Science Center) After almost a decade of delays, the federal government is moving forward on ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — A federal agency will decide by September how much ocean and coast in northern Alaska will be designated as critical habitat for two ice seal species. The Center for Biological ...

This Sept. 5, 2006, file photo shows a bearded seal in Kotzebue, Alaska. (Michael Cameron/NOAA Fisheries Service via AP, file) (CN) — Alaska ice seals won critical federal habitat protections Thursday ...

TOWSON, Md. (AP) -- The National Aquarium has released a harp seal rescued from Ocean City after severe dehydration. The seal, Amelia Bedelia, has been part of a cast of storybook characters ...

WASHINGTON— Following a legal victory by the Center for Biological Diversity, the National Marine Fisheries Service announced two final rules today to protect critical habitat for bearded seals and ...