A small electrical fire broke out at the Pittsburgh Zoo’s Aquarium building on Tuesday morning. A spokesperson for the zoo ...

A woman was bitten on the elbow by an alligator while she was boating in Florida, officials said. The woman was paddling at ...

NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — A baby seal found stranded on a street near Connecticut’s Yale University last month has died from ...

The gray seal, named “Chappy,” was admitted to the Mystic Aquarium’s Animal Rescue Clinic on Feb. 16 after being discovered ...

The aquarium helping Chappy — a nod to the New Haven, Conn., neighborhood where he was rescued last month — said he died of ...

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The police in New Haven, Conn., found a young seal wandering the streets and aided in its rescue. “Maybe we should just start keeping mackerel in the cruisers,” one officer suggested.

Seal species are a fascinating topic for children to discover. They have interesting faces with whiskers that detect their prey and feet that look like fins. Sometimes they live up to 35 years and ...

A seal was found in downtown New Haven Sunday. The baby male gray seal is being rehabilitated at the Mystic Aquarium. A lost seal found wandering on the streets of New Haven is safe and recovering, ...

A seal was located on a local street on Sunday in New Haven Connecticut. The animal was safely recovered and received medical attention. Police are trying to figure out how a seal ended up wandering ...

Marine biologists at UC Santa Cruz have discovered that northern elephant seals can serve as 'smart sensors' for monitoring fish populations in the ocean’s twilight zone. Seals' foraging ...

A seal was located on a local street on Sunday in New Haven Connecticut. The animal was safely recovered and received medical attention. Police are trying to figure out how a seal ended up ...