Reports of a stranded seal on a New Jersey beach caught the attention of the local media this weekend but were quickly tossed back. Mostly because it is totally normal for seals to swim ashore. Doesn't mean it didn't make for a cute photo op, though! more ›

There have been plenty of seals spotted around the city in recent years—at Gracie Mansion, in Inwood, on Brighton Beach, even on the Upper West Side. If you haven't had the luck of spotting one in person, however, the American Princess cruise boat is here to help you make your own luck, whisking you away to seal hot spots. more ›

This morning, we heard a report of a grey seal spotted on the rocks behind Gracie Mansion, the city's official mayoral residence, so we messaged the NYC Mayor's Office via Twitter, "is there a grey seal on the rocks behind gracie mansion? if yes, can you take a picture?" Ask and ye shall receive, folks—the NYC Mayor's Office just Tweeted, "Meet the new City seal! MT @Gothamist is there a grey seal on the rocks behind gracie mansion? http://yfrog.com/gzgp2laaj" more ›

It's that time again! Summer's (sort of) officially here with an early shark sighting this season, this time swimming scarily close to shore at a West Hampton beach. And while there were no reports of human injuries, authorities are also investigating the remains of a (presumably adorable) seal that washed up on the beach this morning, which may be linked to the sharks. more ›

An adorable seal decided to spend his humpday making his way from the Hudson River to a beach in Inwood. CityRoom reports, "The seal had a light gray coat with dark spots. It lay on the sand near some graffitied rocks and growled and thumped the sand whenever photographers drew too close." Seal hates paparazzi! more ›

Age ain't nothing but a number, at least for two harbor seals at the New York Aquarium. Coral, a 3-year-old seal, recently shacked up with Bernie, a 23-year-old seal who hasn't had contact with his kind in ages. Jon Dohlin, the aquarium's director, told the Daily News: "It was our opportunity to get him a companion of his own species. It was our hope they would show interest in each other. I think Bernie was taken aback by the whole thing and wanted to find out what was this strange animal that looked something like him... he was busy checking her out." more ›

As authorities searched for that stray sedative-filled dart they attempted to euthanize the baby whale with last week, they came across another injured animal. A sick seal pup was found in East Hampton this weekend, with an elevated white blood cell count. According to Newsday, the Riverhead Foundation's rescue program director Kim Durham said multiple lacerations were found, and it was placed on antibiotics. This was one of four injured seals reported on Sunday. Meanwhile, the 27-inch dart was never recovered, but the search continues "for reasons of public safety." more ›

Another day, another seal sighting! Yesterday some Jersey City locals spotted a baby seal on a log in the Hudson River. According to WCBS, the little one wasn't sunbathing, but appeared to be trapped—"for hours, bystanders looked on as the seal flapped, wiggled and inched along." more ›

Back in January a seal was spotted basking in the sun off Staten Island, and it was promptly featured in The Advance with a photo spread. Now Manhattan has its own posing seal! A photographer sent the NY Post a shot of this Upper West Side seal, spotted at the end of West 64th Street on the Hudson. But how did he get up there? The paper says he likely rode the high tide. Pretty clever... but which borough has the cuter seal? more ›

The two men who rescued the seal off Staten Island yesterday, detectives Frank Pellegrino and Matthew Sherman of the harbor unit and scuba team, are talking about their 5 minute encounter with the struggling pup. more ›

Just after 4 p.m. today we got word that marine specialists were working to rescue a seal that had became entangled in a floating piece of debris, and was spotted bobbing around trying to free itself. SILive reports that it had been stuck since yesterday evening, according to locals. Now WCBS reports that the seal, who hit this aquatic obstacle off Staten Island in Raritan Bay, has been reunited with his freedom! His heroes allegedly enjoyed a high-five after their rescue efforts proved successful. But where were they when this other Staten Island seal was traumatized by a barking dog? more ›

"Dog meets seal" sure sounds cute, but we're a bit concerned about this little guy in the video. SILive reports that Julio, the chocolate Lab, and his owner Andrew Maira encountered this seal in the sand of Great Kills Park on Staten Island. As Maira says in the video, "that's a sick seal." We're attempting to find out if he called anyone to report the sighting. more ›

Staten Island may be known best known for its guido culture, but the Staten Island Advance reports today on a little something that may just help shed that stigma: a gallery of adorable images of a seal basking in the sun! They say that every day this seal "can be found enjoying the early morning sunlight in Annadale," spotted most mornings on a rock in the waters off Lipsett Avenue (unlike other locals who can be found at Hollywood Tans). One woman delcares: "I've never seen anything like that on Staten Island." more ›

If only seal sightings were reserved for vast seascapes. PETA sent one of their "seals of disapproval" to the Grand Hyatt Hotel this past week "to protest Canada's seal slaughter while the country's prime minister, Stephen Harper" was attending a meeting inside. The organization notes that tens of thousands of harp seals are slaughtered in Canada each year, and even baby seal's skulls are bashed in during slaughter season. more ›

Earlier this week, iReport had a video of a really cute harbor seal spotted off Red Hook [Via Brownstoner] - the video is below (it's an auto-play and it's seriously awww-worthy)! Besides being ridiculously cute, the video brings back a flood of memories of various seal sighting in the city. There was Gowana, the harp seal in the Gowanus Canal, a harbor seal in Brooklyn, another harp seal near Battery Park, and a harbor seal on the Upper West Side. more ›

To be a young harbor seal taking some time from swimming to sun! A young seal was seen hanging out at the 79th Street Boast Basin yesterday morning the Parks Department. more ›

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