and sea lions might look similar, they come from different families in their taxonomy: Phocidae and Otariidae, respectively.

They comprise the extant families Odobenidae (whose only living member is the walrus), Otariidae (the eared seals: sea lions and fur seals), and Phocidae (the earless, or true seals). Seals range ...

According to an April 2021 study in Scientific Reports, the Galápagos sea lion and Galápagos fur seal were "among the most ...

Diet analyses are performed on euthanized animals. Body parts are sometimes sent to universities or Indigenous tribes so that even dead sea lions don’t go to waste. This year, whiskers, fur and ...