This latest title in the "Of the World" series - the seventeenth - covers that fascinating group of animals whose evolution into their present forms and life-styles seems almost contradictory. While ...

Long Marine Lab www.pinnipedlab.org Learn about the lab that studies the remarkable cognitive abilities of sea lions, walruses, and other pinnipeds at this website from the University of California ...

Source: Kitty Terwolbeck, via Wikimedia Commons. Whiskers aren’t just decorative. Whisker touch is an active sensory system. Most mammals have whiskers and a few, like rats and shrews, are whisker ...

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 ...

Sea turtles are making a surprising comeback, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature. The news was ...

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania…Researchers from the United States and Canada have found a fossil skeleton of a newly discovered carnivorous animal, Puijila darwini. New research suggests Puijila is a ...

The rock wall of West Cliff is visible beyond the Santa Cruz Municipal Wharf as sea lions bark below and humans go about their business above. Sea lions seals, and walruses are pinnipeds, which means ...

THIS bulky octavo volume forms No. 12 of the miscellaneous publications of the Department of the Interior, United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories, which is under the ...

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 ...