April 6 (UPI) --The seals and sea lions that today populate Australia's shores and coastal waters were preceded by earless seals, part of a now-extinct group of sea mammals known as monachines.

A fossilised seal tooth found on a Victorian beach could hold the key to uncovering the history and geography of earless seals that graced Australia's shores three million years ago. This prehistoric ...

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian authorities were investigating whether 141 Baikal earless seals starved to death after their carcasses washed up in Siberia on the shores of the world’s deepest lake, officials ...

Gray seals have become increasingly abundant in the Hampton Harbor area, raising concerns about their impact on the local ecosystem. Gray seals are large, earless seals that can dive to great depths ...

Pinnipeds, colloquially known as seals, are a widely distributed and diverse clade of fin-footed, semiaquatic marine mammals. They comprise the extant families Odobenidae (whose only living member is ...

Find out why this seal resembles a big cat in more than coat alone. Learn how they survive in the frigid waters of the ...

A fossilised seal tooth, dating back approximately three million years, found on a Victorian beach proves earless seals existed in Australia in prehistoric times. Known as monachines, the seals became ...