seal: Quick Facts

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A crabeater seal (Lobodon carcinophagus) lies on snow-covered ice with its mouth open, surrounded by broken sea ice in East Antarctica.

Gray seal (Halichoerus grypus).

Crabeater seals resting on snow-covered ice floes in the Weddell Sea, Antarctica, with icy landscape and overcast sky in the background.

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