Scientists are to probe a mystery decline in seal numbers which has seen their populations drop in Scotland. In some areas, harbour seal numbers are in decline or are at drastically depleted levels ...

A grey seal colony in Suffolk has seen a 70% year-on-year increase in pups. The National Trust revealed last year that Orford ...

A rescued seal pup needs a major flipper operation so she can eventually be released back into the wild, experts say. The ...

Marine life rescuers have urged the public not to approach a grey seal resting on Scarborough sea front, after the animal was disturbed by an onlooker. The seal, nicknamed Bernie, was first spotted in ...

More than 3,200 grey seal pups were born along a section of the Norfolk coast this season – slightly fewer than last year and possibly due to them finding new breeding grounds elsewhere.

The UK is home to over a third of the world’s grey seal population, according to SMRU. The animals’ increase, since the cessation of culls in the 1970s and the ban of hunting in the early 1980s, has ...

A young grey seal scratches against a post in the dunes at Horsey in Norfolk, as the pupping season draws to a close at one the UK’s most important sites for the mammals (Joe Giddens/PA ...