According to rescuers, the baby gray seal is severely underweight, weighing in at 28 pounds, when a typical seal pup would weigh a healthy 35 pounds at its age of approximately six weeks old.

OSAKA--A ringed seal pup near death after its birth earlier this year and saved by aquarium staff here is now thriving and wowed visitors with his public debut on Aug. 18. Tsubaki Nakajima ...

In Lake Baikal, a pup must take a treacherous underwater swim away from its birthplace. Luckily, its mother knows how to create air bubbles so that the baby can breath under the ice sheet.