Northern elephant seals are the largest true seals in the Northern Hemisphere. Females arrive at their breeding site after 240 days at sea to give birth to their young, which they nurse for only three weeks before returning to sea. Photo: Jerry Kirkland via Wikipedia...
What we land dwellers get to see of seals is only a fraction of their lives: Seals are at home in the sea and are optimally adapted to life in the water. If the beautiful Sedna had not resisted her father’s wish to marry her off to a black raven, there would be...