Weddell seals are the most southerly breeding of all the mammals. Because they are air-breathing furry mammals, seals have to give birth on land (or ice). Seals can’t give birth in the water ...

Although the continent of Antarctica is usually described as a hostile, frozen wilderness, surprisingly unique animals exist that ... Leopard seals Leopard seals (Hydrurga leptonyx) are among ...

After months of floating, the "megaberg" known as A23a has finally come to a halt roughly 50 miles from South Georgia Island ...

Scientists have found evidence for an ancient sea passage linking currently isolated areas of Antarctica. The evidence comes from a study of tiny marine animals ... the Ross and Weddell seas.

Our special report offers a rare look at life beneath the frozen continent—where penguins, seals ... Antarctica, creating a sharp temperature gradient that inhibits the spread of marine animals.

Analysis of sedimentary ancient DNA has illuminated 6000 years of the lives of Adélie penguin colonies on Antarctica's Ross Sea coast, showing how ...

Antarctica. This positive result was obtained in 42 animals, including 28 carcasses of species such as crabeater seals, skuas, gulls, snowy sheathbill, Adélie penguins, and Gentoo penguins ...

While more study is needed, they suspect the colony is utilized heavily by predators such as Weddell seals.

Follow a team of scientists and filmmakers in Antarctica studying the most sophisticated hunting strategy in the animal kingdom ... Something that a weddell seal wouldn't be able to do.

In the footage, a female orca leads the lesson, demonstrating how to pull the seal off the ice by its tail, as the calves watch and learn. She lets the seal escape, and after it jumps back on the ...