NORWALK, CT – Floor-to-ceiling windows offer great underwater views of the seals in “Pinniped Cove,” an enormous new seal habitat opening June 8 in The Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk. Guests also can ...

Pinnipeds -- a group including seals, sea lions and walruses -- are relatively recently derived marine mammals that evolved from terrestrial carnivorans and reentered the marine environment. Their ...

The Maritime Aquarium welcomed a couple of new flippered friends to its Pinniped Cove exhibit in early January. The new Harbor seals, Feisty (a 33-year-old male) and Gracie (a 20-year-old female), ...

Pinnipeds comprise a diverse group of marine carnivores that include seals, sea lions and the walrus. Their evolutionary history is marked by a complex interplay of ecological, morphological and ...

NORWALK, Conn. (WTNH) — On Tuesday, the Maritime Aquarium unveiled the largest exhibit in its history. They built a new harbor seal habitat called Pinniped Cove. RELATED: Want to swim with sharks?

Researchers have found a fossilized ancestor of modern seals and sea lions that they say represents an evolutionary step in the organisms' transition from land-dwelling mammals to the aquatic ...

The tension is palpable as two marine life rescuers wait beneath a relentless July sun. They hold large boards with which to corner a mass of brown and flippers that remains as still as they are.

Dave Kastak, a researcher scientist in the Pinniped Cognition program at Long Marine Laboratory, died Jan. 12. Kastak had been part of the Long Marine Laboratory and marine mammal community for more ...

Kudos to Henry Mance (Opinion, November 13) for exposing the raw truth: “One day luxury hotels might even realise a night’s sleep does not require eight walrus-sized pillows.” How often, in a luxury ...