The earless seal's Mediterranean monk seal ( Monachus monachus ) former range extended throughout the Northwest Atlantic Africa, Mediterranean and Black Sea, coastlines, including all offshore islands of the Mediterranean, and into the Atlantic and its islands: Canary, Madeira, Ilhas desertas, Porto Santo ... as far west as the Azores.

Holbrookia is a genus of earless lizards, known commonly as the lesser earless lizards, which contains three recognized species that are found throughout the southwestern and central United States, and northern Mexico.

The harp seal or saddleback seal is a species of earless seal native to the northernmost Atlantic Ocean and parts of the Arctic Ocean.

The Caspian seal ( Pusa caspica ) is one of the smallest members of the earless seal family and unique in that it is found exclusively in the brackish Caspian Sea.

Due to the widening of Kunashiri Highway, in recent years whale and dolphin watching have become popular in the summer, whereas viewing Steller ’ s Sea Eagle, White-tailed ( sea ) Eagles, ( earless ) seals, and drift-ice are popular in the winter.

Pinnipeds are flippered marine mammals belonging to three related families in the order Carnivora, the Phocidae ( earless seals or true seals ), the Otariidae ( eared seals, including sea lions and fur seals ), and Odobenidae ( walrus ).

Along with all of the other earless seals, it belongs to the family Phocidae, and is the only species in the genus Hydrurga.

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Distinguishing features of this earless seal include square fore flippers and thick bristles on its muzzle.

The name is derived from the Ancient Greek words for " earless " in both cases: the monkey is missing external ears, and the pea is missing earlike bracteoles.

The Canoidea superfamily ( or Caniformia suborder ) – Canidae ( wolves, dogs and foxes ), Mephitidae ( skunks and stink badgers ), Mustelidae ( weasels, badgers, and otters ), Procyonidae ( raccoons ), Ursidae ( bears ), Otariidae ( eared seals ), Odobenidae ( walrus ), and Phocidae ( earless seals ) ( the last three families formerly classified in the suborder Pinnipedia ) and the extinct family Amphicyonidae ( bear-dogs ) – are characterized by having nonchambered or partially chambered auditory bullae, nonretractable claws, and a well-developed baculum.

The true seals or earless seals are one of the three main groups of mammals within the seal superfamily, Pinnipedia.

A baby koala is referred to as a joey and is hairless, blind, and earless.

They are eyeless, earless, and have a prehensile tongue.

These rare, blind and earless carnivorous creatures spend most of their time underground ; little is known about them.

Their fore flippers are larger than those of earless seals and are used as a primary source of propulsion and maneuverability in the water.

Their ears are rather difficult to see, and their genus name, “ Aotus ,” means “ earless ” because of this.

The Baikal seal, Lake Baikal seal, or nerpa ( Pusa sibirica, obsolete: Phoca sibirica ), is a species of earless seal endemic to Lake Baikal in Siberia.

The ringed seal ( Pusa hispida ), also known as the jar seal and as netsik or nattiq by the Inuit, is an earless seal ( family: Phocidae ) inhabiting the Arctic and sub-Arctic regions.

The earless taxa ( Cophosaurus and Holbrookia ) are sister genera.

The earless monitor lizard ( Lanthanotus borneensis ) is a semi-aquatic, brown lizard native to northern Borneo.

Image: WhiteSandsBleachedEarlessLizard. jpg | Bleached earless lizard at White Sands NM

The greater earless lizard ( Cophosaurus texanus ) is a species of earless lizard endemic to the southwestern United States.

It is called " greater " because it grows larger than the earless lizards of the genus Holbrookia, to which it is closely related.

Greater earless lizards grow from 3-7 inches in length.

All earless lizards are diurnal, basking lizards.

Lesser earless lizards grow to approximately 2-2. 5 inches ( 50-65 mm ) snout to vent length ( SVL ), plus a tail 3-4 inches ( 75-100 mm ) long.

The only member of the genus Enhydra, the sea otter is so different from other mustelid species that, as recently as 1982, some scientists believed it was more closely related to the earless seals.

The northern fur seal's range overlaps almost exactly with that of Steller sea lions, with which they occasionally cohabit reproductive rookeries, notably in the Kurils, the Commander Islands and Tyulen ' i Islands.

The only other fur seal found in the Northern Hemisphere is the Guadalupe fur seal which overlaps slightly with the northern fur seal's range in California.

The portion of the Guadalupe fur seal's range which is under U. S. jurisdiction is at the limit of the species range.

This has been the primary use throughout the seal's history, though isolated uses have been made for correspondence with other members of government.

In 1930 another committee was charged with standardizing the seal's design because of all the variations that came into use over the years.

As a result the seal's head logo gravitated into the funnel, replacing the old colours of each individual owner company.

Thus, the seal's total gestation period is around eleven months, though its active gestation period is nine months.

The Graphic and Calligraphy Office will approve of the seal's use in application of official gifts, an example being its application to a silver cigarette box presented as a gift to Franklin Roosevelt.

The seal's principal figure is Minerva-a symbol appropriate for an organization created in the midst of the American Revolution and dedicated to the cultivation of every art and science to " advance the interest, honour, dignity, and happiness of a free, independent, and virtuous people.

The head is very large and cow-like or reptilian with teeth similar to a crabeater seal's.

This seal's use apparently did not pass over to the new government in 1789.

Ironically, it was the one in use during the seal's centennial in 1882.

All Silja Line's ships were painted in the same colour scheme, with a white hull and superstructure, with the dark blue " Silja Line " text on the side, alongside the now-famous seal's head logo.

The seal's owner Harry Goodridge co-wrote a book about Andre, titled A Seal Called Andre.

Organs as different as a bat's wing, a seal's flipper, a cat's paw and a human hand have a common underlying structure of bones and muscles.

The chemicals are speculated to concentrate up the food chain, and weaken the Baikal seal's immune systems, making them susceptible to diseases such as canine distemper and the plague, which was the cause of a serious Baikal seal epidemic that resulted in the deaths of thousands of animals in 1997 and 1999.

Although this 3, 400 pound, nearly ten foot wide seal was created in the foundry at San Quentin, the fact that the building had appeared in the seal more than fifty years before this seal's creation in 1952 ( twelve pre-1952 examples that include the building are shown below ), that the configuration of the building on this seal is nearly identical to how it appeared in 1895, and that no structure in this form had ever existed at the prison dismiss the rumor.

As early as the 1640s, the anchor and " hope " were found on the Rhode Island Seal, and the seal's words and emblems were likely inspired by the biblical phrase " hope we have as an anchor of the soul ," found in Hebrews, Verse 6: 18-19.

The seal's diameter is and the combined weight of both sides of the seal matrix exceeds.

This seal's use apparently did not pass over to the new government in 1789.

The major cause of the Guadalupe fur seal's decline was commercial hunting in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.

The brown fur seal's main predator is the great white shark, although they are also preyed upon by various other animals, as well, such as orcas.

Very little is known of this seal's reproduction.