Let us all agree right now: Baby harp seals -- those doe-eyed sausagelike bundles of puffy white blubber -- are just phenomenally, face-meltingly cute. So adorable and so helpless and so sweet looking ...

Cancer doctors at the University of California, Irvine are inviting their female chemotherapy patients into a first-ever study involving therapeutic robots — specifically, four fluffy baby harp seal ...

A new study from Duke has found that as sea ice cover declines off the coast of eastern Canada, harp seal pups are suffering from a higher rate of strandings than their parents. It’s the first study ...

This is the adorable moment a baby harp seal braved the icy water as it went swimming for the very first time. The fluffy two-week-old harp seal looked initially reluctant to get in as it tentatively ...

A baby seal cautiously dips its head in freezing cold water as it goes swimming for the first time. The two-week-old harp seal was exploring the environment in the -2 degree Celsius waters after ...

Warming in the North Atlantic Ocean has decreased winter sea ice and increased the death rate for baby harp seals over the past three decades, according to a new study. Winter sea ice cover in harp ...

A baby harp seal was released back into the ocean Wednesday after several weeks of rehabilitation.The 4-month-old seal named Tonks was released onto the beach in Rye, and rescuers said her story is a ...

The Russian government has banned the hunting of baby harp seals. The decision comes weeks after the prime minister, Vladimir Putin, reportedly called the hunt a "bloody industry". The natural ...

DURHAM, N.C. -- Young harp seals off the eastern coast of Canada are at much higher risk of getting stranded than adult seals because of shrinking sea ice cover caused by recent warming in the North ...