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 recent ...

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 ...

New research in PLOS ONE uncovers an important discovery in the study of marine mammal health by being the first study to detect Otariid gammaherpesvirus 1 (OtGHV1) in free-ranging South American ...

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 ...

Seals, sea lions and walruses — collectively known as pinnipeds — are the only mammals with excellent hearing both above and below the water. The evolution of this unique ability occurred nearly 26.7 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ed Johnstone After sounding the alarm for decades about the need to manage outsized populations of pinnipeds, the treaty tribes ...

Researchers have found a fossilized ancestor of modern seals and sea lions that they say represents an evolutionary step in the organisms' transition from land-dwelling mammals to the aquatic ...

Aquarist Alexis Brauner puts eyedrops in the eyes of one of the resident harbor seals at the Maritime Aquarium Wednesday, June 2, 2021, in Norwalk. The new exhibit, dubbed “Pinniped Cove,” is 160,000 ...

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 ...

After sounding the alarm for decades about the need to manage outsized populations of pinnipeds, the treaty tribes are encouraged by a bipartisan bill to amend the Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA), ...