Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A yellow octopus with blue rings on its body sitting on the seafloor An Australian teenager had a lucky escape after being bitten ...

A federal appeals court on Wednesday reinstated protections for Arctic Alaska seals across a coastal and marine region ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) – Polar bears get fat eating ringed seals, and to avoid that fate, Alaska’s smallest pinniped digs out snow caves on the sea ice, where they surface to breathe and give birth.

Rose-ringed parakeets can be identified by their long tails (about the same length as their lime-green bodies), red beaks and loud call. Mature male parakeets have a black or rose-colored ring around ...

ENOSHIMA, Japan As snack bars start to reopen and windsurfers drift back to this popular beach town south of Tokyo, few denizens are aware that they're sharing real estate with one of the most lethal ...

A recent study reveals that the Saimaa ringed seal is evolutionally much more differentiated than previously known. Indeed, researchers suggest that instead of a subspecies, it should be considered ...

On Wednesday, the National Marine Fisheries Service ruled against a petition from the state of Alaska to delist the Arctic ringed seal from the Endangered Species Act. Last year, the state of Alaska ...

Saimaa ringed seal mothers and their newborns have huddled in pupping lairs along the shores of this inland archipelago in southeastern Finland since time immemorial. Expectant females shape their ...