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The harbor (or harbour) seal (Phoca vitulina), also known as the common seal, is a true seal found along temperate and Arctic marine coastlines of the Northern Hemisphere. The most widely distributed species of pinniped (walruses, eared seals, and true seals), they are found in coastal waters of the northern Atlantic and Pacific oceans, Baltic ...
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Phoca (/ ˈ f oʊ k ə / FOH-kə) [1] is a genus of the earless seals, within the family Phocidae.It now contains just two species, the common seal (or harbour seal) and the spotted seal (or largha seal).
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Harbor seal skull (Phoca vitulina) Adult phocids vary from 1.17 m (3.8 ft) in length and 45 kg (99 lb) in weight in the ringed seal to 5.8 m (19 ft) and 4,000 kg (8,800 lb) in the southern elephant seal, which is the largest member of the order Carnivora.
The finding, published last month in the Centers for Disease Control’s Morbidity and Mortality weekly report, details how a 32-year-old wildlife biologist from Kitsap County contracted the ...
On May 5, 1971, [3] Scottie Dunning discovered a tiny male harbor seal pup on the shore of Cundy's Harbor, Maine. After a failed attempt at locating the pup's mother, Dunning called his brother-in-law George Swallow for help. When Swallow arrived, the two searched for the mother seal and later found her dead among the rocks. [4]
Sailors of Seal Harbor, Maine, used to use the cliffs beneath this waterfront mansion as a landmark to guide them safely to shore. The target for the seafarers was a cleft in the shores' sun ...