Erebus Bay, Antarctica, is home to the southernmost population of the world's southernmost living mammal—the Weddell seal.
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 ...
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.
The harbor seals of Alaska’s Iliamna Lake, which make up one of only five freshwater seal populations in the world, have long ...
Scientists are using samples from subsistence-harvested bearded seals to establish kin relationships (parent-offspring, ...
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 ...