18 Animals That Lost and Won the Genetic Lottery at the Same Time

White turtles, black zebras, golden tigers, pink katydids — they often don’t survive for long in the wild without the benefits of their natural coloring. However, such animals never fail to capture people's hearts.

Antarctic fur seal: Found in chilly northern waters, these are not ordinary seals: their skin is covered with fur. In fact, fur seals evolved from the same ancestors as dogs and bears. About one in 1,000 Antarctic fur seals is a pale "blonde" variant, which is extremely rare. How many Antarctic fur seals are left in the world? How many Antarctic Fur Seals are there today? There are only very rough estimates of the Antarctic Fur Seal population due to the fact that they spend so much of their time out at sea. The best guesses place the population at somewhere over 2,000,000 to 4,000,000.