Marine ecologists and researchers responded quickly. Upon arrival, the team identified the carcass as a Mediterranean monk seal, an endangered species. Dr. Elasar classified the animal as an adult ...

Panagis is one of dozens of Mediterranean monk seals, or Monachus monachus ... Panagis was found in Cyprus, near where the carcass of his mother had been found a few days earlier.

Monk seal deaths on Molokai Since 2020 ... May 25, 2021; sub-adult female RK44; inconclusive; carcass washed out to sea. • June 3, 2021; nursing pup RPX3; inconclusive; carcass washed out ...

Fishermen in Hong Kong have spotted the carcass of a whale in the city’s eastern waters, reporting to authorities that the mammal was floating belly up on the surface of the sea. Police officers ...

Once on the brink of extinction, rare Mediterranean monk seal populations are rising ... in the coastal waters of Cyprus near the carcass of his mother. Locals alerted authorities and MOm arranged ...