Future looks bleak for 1 of world's smallest seal species
Monday, October 6, 2008 - 13:21
in Biology & Nature
One of the smallest seals - the Caspian - has joined a growing list of mammal species in danger of extinction.Scientists from the University of Leeds together with international partners have documented the disastrous decline of the seal - a species found only in the land-locked waters of the Caspian Sea - in a series of surveys which reveal a 90 per cent drop in numbers in the last 100 years.