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Snow Storm May Have Saved Dozens of Saimaa Seal Pups

Seal - Harbor (Phoca vitulina) or Spotted (Phoca largha) with Hair Loss and Skin Infection

The Detective of Northern Oddities

Spotted Seal

Another Puget Sound orca dies — 5th in a year

Polar Bears’ Path to Decline Runs Through Alaskan Village

Kachemak Bay has seen massive die-offs of sea stars and other species. What’s going on?

Long Beaked Common Dolphin (Delphinus capensis) Beaching

Dead Humpback Whale (Megaptera novaeangliae)

Dead Whale on Beach

Dead Sea Lion (Eumetopias jubatus) in Boat Harbor

Juneau scientist helps discover new whale species

Dead Sea Lion (Eumetopias jubatus)

Dolphins in Salish Sea signal warming worries

Pacific walrus population dropped drastically in 1980s-90s, study indicates

West Coast Harmful Algal Bloom

Sperm Whales Found Dead In Germany, Stomachs FULL Of Plastic And Car Parts

Another Dead Sea Otter (Enhydra lutris)

Varamiento de una ballena en costas yucatecas

Sea Otters (Enhydra lutris) Stranding at Chignik Lagoon

Avistamiento de ballena en playas de Puerto Progreso, Yucatán

Dead Fin Whale (Balaenoptera physalus)

Winter Beluga Whale (Delphinapterus leucas) Sighting

This May Be The Most Contaminated Killer Whale Ever Recorded

Dead Porpoise and Birds

Dead Sea Otter (Enhydra lutris)

Late Sea Ice Freeze Bring Together Seals and Caribou

Entangled Humpback (Megaptera novaeangliae) Whale

Arctic Char (Salvelinus alpinus) with Saprolegnia Mold

Dead Humpback (Megaptera novaeangliae) Near Birchwood

Dead Sea Otter (Enhydra lutris) and Starfish (Phylum: Echinodermata)

Are Vancouver's recent Gray Whale sightings the start of regular seasonal visits?

Dead Humpback Whale (Megaptera novaeangliae)

Dead Sea Lion (Eumetopias jubatus)

Low Seal Numbers

Whales Are Dying Off North America’s West Coast

Big Mama and the return of the humpback whales to the Salish Sea

Dead Gray Whale (Eschrichtius robustus)

The Blob: Why warmer oceans are a big concern

The warm ‘blob’ in Canada’s Pacific Ocean

Dead Gray Whale (Eschrichtius robustus)

Dead Fin Whale (Balaenoptera physalus)

Sick Harbor Seal (Phoca vitulina)

Dead Orca (Orcinus orca) Whale

Bearded Seal (Erignathus barbatus) with Hair Loss

Grey Seal

Sea Otter (Enhydra lutris) Sighted at Possession Point, Southern Vancouver Islan

Rare and friendly sea otter spotted in waters off Saanich

Dead Northern Sea Otter (Enhydra lutris)

New Beaked Whale Species (Berardius)

Dead Spotted (Phoca largha) and Ringed (Pusa hispida) Seals

Sea Lion (Eumetopias jubatus) Over-heated

Advisory - Beluga (Delphinapterus leucas) Safety

Early Fur Seals

Dead Walrus (Odobenus rosmarus)

Hairless Seal

Poor Sea Ice - Our Sea Garden

Sick Spotted Seal (Phoca largha)

Could Alaska's mystery seal illness be Arctic sunburn?

Bearded seal

Ringed Seal

Unusual Polar Bear (Ursus maritimus) Sighting

Dead Beluga Whale (Delphinapterus leucas)

Dead Humpback Whale (Megaptera novaeangliae)

Dead Baby Belugas (Delphinapterus leucas)

Dead Grey Whale

Dead Whale

Three dead whales

Unusual Bearded Seal (Erignathus barbatus)

Ringed Seal (Phoca hispida) with Sores

Seal with Hair Loss

Fur loss, oozing sores observed in Arctic Alaska polar bears

3,000 dolphins found dead on the coast of Peru

Polar bears with skin illness

Ringed seal

Bearded seal

Ringed seal

Spotted seal

Spotted seal

Ribbon seal