I’m gazing wistfully at a towering red-rock butte bathed in gentle sunset light, shades of brown to violet framed against a meek background of sky. It’s massive but tame, brooding but well-mannered, ...

A three-week-old harp seal stranded Friday morning on Long Beach Island is being cared for at the Marine Mammal Stranding Center in Brigantine. "It's a very, very young seal, still in its birthing ...

In the 1970s and '80s environmentalists publicized grim photos of French and Inuit hunters in Newfoundland and other areas around the Gulf of St Lawrence, clubbing and often skinning alive baby harp ...

It’s hard to predict which animals will transform like butterflies upon reaching adulthood. Some animals, like horses or antelopes, come out of the womb looking like miniature versions of their fully ...

LAVALLETTE - An adult harp seal was rescued from a beach in Lavallette on Saturday after it was seen eating sand for a day by animal observers, according to the Marine Mammal Stranding Center of ...

MOSCOW -- Russia said yesterday that it was banning the hunting of baby harp seals, weeks after Prime Minister Vladimir Putin was reported to have called the hunt a "bloody industry." The Natural ...

It's white, furry, cute and cuddly – and its name is Paro. One of the latest developments in artificial intelligence, Paro's a robot made to look like a baby harp seal that is helping comfort patients ...