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A sea lion has external earflaps, while seals have internal ears. Sea lions can pivot their hind flippers to walk on land, but seals cannot. Sea lions propel with their front flippers and steer with the back, but seals are opposite of this.

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the diffrence in a sea lion and seal is that seals drag thier whole body to the water and a sea lion does not it wmoves with it's four flippers

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