More importantly, why do we confuse them? As it turns out, seals and sea lions are same-same-but-different. And apparently fur seals fall into the same category as sea lions – not seals!

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They comprise the extant families Odobenidae (whose only living member is the walrus), Otariidae (the eared seals: sea lions and fur seals), and Phocidae (the earless, or true seals). Seals range ...

California sea lions are members of the "eared seal" family, Otariidae. They are social animals and form large onshore groups over several hundred individuals. At sea they are fast, agile swimmers ...

A sea lion pup at Tacoma’s Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium put on an “underwater ballet” show for zookeepers, the zoo said on2.The footage shows 8-month-old female sea lion pup Pepper playing with a ...

Stellers are the largest of all sea lions and they have an appetite to match. These giant pinnipeds hunt fish, squid, octopus and, rarely, smaller seals. They are found off northern Pacific coasts ...

Researchers have found a fossilized ancestor of modern seals and sea lions that they say represents an evolutionary step in the organisms' transition from land-dwelling mammals to the aquatic ...