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Science turns to seals to unlock mysteries under the ice sheet
The warmer water flowed below the ice, allowing seal populations to catch food efficiently. “Antarctic krill and other creatures that serve as food (for seals) can be found in vast numbers in ...
Researchers find Weddell seals avoid extreme dives at midday
Erebus Bay, Antarctica, is home to the southernmost population of the world's southernmost living mammal—the Weddell seal.
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Here’s Where the Arctic’s Wildlife Will Make Its Last Stand
In seconds they’re out of the water again, running across the ice ... Polar bears perch on sea ice to ambush seals—the source of 90 percent of their calories—when the seals surface.
Freshwater seals in Alaska’s biggest lake are genetically different from saltwater seals
The harbor seals of Alaska’s Iliamna Lake, which make up one of only five freshwater seal populations in the world, have long ...
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New Method Provides Reliable Estimates for Bearded Seals
Scientists are using samples from subsistence-harvested bearded seals to establish kin relationships (parent-offspring, ...
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Dramatic footage shows orcas breaking an ice platform to trap and kill a seal, a rare technique used by only 100 whales
The seal had found refuge on a platform made of ice floating on water. The killer whales started by swimming side by side, which created a wave that cracked the seal's large ice platform into a ...