Last week, members of the San Diego Zoological Society ex-pedition to hunt the rare Townsend fur seal, told newsgatherers that they had seen white seals on Guadalupe Island, off the coast of Mexico.

The dog's breed was unknown but described as medium-sized and with long black and white fur, she added. Guadalupe fur seals were hunted to near extinction by the 1900s, according to the National ...

Antarctic fur seals that were hunted to near extinction have recovered but now face dangerous decline because of a lack of food, new research suggests. Plants & Animals Oct 16, 2023 ...

"It's not how you'd expect a shark-seal encounter to go. Very occasionally you'd get one shark that just wouldn’t give up and we'd watch and film it for 10 to 15 minutes just going up and down ...

Extrapolating from the authors' calculations, a 2,160-pound great white would have to eat a fur seal pup every 45.6 hours to remain sated. Based on the past data, that rate would have only been one ...

Great whites over the last couple of decades have been seen launching more than 40 attacks a day on seals. Sharks have been observed jumping out of the water and snatching seals.

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Antarctic fur seals that were hunted to near extinction have recovered but now face dangerous decline because of a lack of food, new research suggests. Plants & Animals Oct 16, 2023 ...