There are no land-based predators on Sable Island, so after the seals dodge sharks lurking in the water, they find safety on its shores. For grey seal colonies in other regions, this isn’t ...

Once hunted to near extinction, the grey seal population is thriving today. Grey seals have few predators and don’t depend on a single type of prey, eating an extremely wide variety of fish ...

She said: "This is the first recording of an interaction between these two top predators and the first report of grey seals using spitting as a means of defence or deterrence against an aerial foe.

Around 120,000 grey seals set up home off the coast of Britain ... The seals can live for as many as 35 years in the wild while dealing with predators like orcas and larger leopard seals.

The grey seal, which has been nicknamed Hercules Beetle, was rescued by the BDMLR for treatment of an eye infection. Dan Jarvis, welfare and conservation director at the BDMLR, said: "Because of ...

The first grey seal pup of the season has been born at ... as well as a lack of natural predators.