A concerned resident sent a video of the seal — which seems to be a harp seal based on its markings — to the Advance/SILive.com. The resident gingerly circled the sea creature while recording ...

Four covers were identified as coming from harbour seals (Phoca vitulina), one was traced to a harp seal (Pagophilus groenlandicus) and one to a bearded seal (Erignathus barbatus). DNA analysis of ...

They found some of the animal-skin DNA belonged to harp seal populations from Scandinavia, Scotland, Iceland and Greenland — from the land-locked region of Champagne. The manuscripts were likely ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Medieval books were often bound with sealskin, as revealed by biocodicological analysis. Initially believed to be made from local animal skins, chemises were ...

More specifically, the DNA still contained in the book binding allowed researchers to narrow their search to harbor and harp seal populations from Scandinavia, Scotland, Iceland and Greenland ...