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Alaskan seals are mysteriously dying since last year and authorities can't figure out why
•NOAA, the agency looking after the marine life, is looking at possible ecosystem influences, including diminished sea ice.
Antarctica's ecosystem thrives on nitrogen-rich poop of penguins and seals
•The 'influential excrement' supports mosses & lichens, which in turn sustain microscopic life.
Dead dolphins and seals wash up on Florida shore in unusually large numbers
•Unusually, 48 dolphins between 1 July and 30 August washed up dead along the coast of Florida
New evolutionary step or frustration? Seals observed having sex with penguins
Fp Staff •The seals natural prey, the penguin, has now surprisingly become it's new copulating partner. Why so? Marine biologists are as clueless as the rest of us.
Seals may have introduced tuberculosis to South America: Study
Fp Archives •According to co-investigator Johannes Krause from University of Tubingen in Germany, “The connection to seals and sea lions is important to explain how a mammalian-adapted pathogen that evolved in Africa around 6,000 years ago could have reached Peru 5,000 years later