DESCRIPTION: Named for its resemblance to a Catholic monk, the Hawaiian monk seal has folds around its neck and is gray in color, with pelage often turning brown from weathering. Adult females weigh ...

The young Hawaiian monk seal was “released back into his natural habitat on Kauai, ready to reclaim his place in the wild,” the U.S. Coast Guard Hawaii Pacific wrote in a Facebook post on Nov. 25.

Get Hawaii’s latest morning news delivered to your inbox, sign up for News 2 You The Hawaiian monk seal, Kaiwi, gave birth to a pup at the busy south shore beach early Wednesday morning ...

The endangered Hawaiian monk seal population in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands does not appear to have been severely affected by March’s tsunami from Japan, according to an initial assessment ...

Footage of the incident showed the mother monk seal charging at the woman while she was in the water Jason Hahn is a former Human Interest and Sports Reporter for PEOPLE. He started at PEOPLE's ...