Ukrainian polar explorers have chosen a name for this year's first Weddell seal pup, which was born on Winter Island near the ...

Authorities are appealing for witnesses after a juvenile sub-Antarctic fur seal was found ... said a member of the public ...

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A British scientist died after being attacked by a huge seal while snorkelling in the Antarctic. Marine biologist Kirsty Brown, 28, was studying the movement of icebergs when the animal struck ...

so they can best interact with the daily changing environment in the Antarctic, allowing them to maximize their prey.” The researchers outfitted the seals with Conductivity Temperature Depth ...

entitled Above the Crabeater Seals, in Antarctica. "For me, it is very important to show the state of the Arctic and Antarctic regions," he said. "It is also important that anyone inspired by this ...

Scientists have identified an optimal and novel dive foraging strategy the seals employ to capture prey in the highly seasonal Antarctic environment with its rapidly changing light regimes.

By tagging Weddell seals with specialised satellite devices, Dr Wege, and her collaborators at the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in Germany and the University of Bergen in ...

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In 2008, a 37-year-old man climbed into the enclosure holding the baby polar bear Knut. The two-year-old Knut was a global celebrity after becoming the first polar bear to be born and survive ...

Shero et al, Breath-hold capacities and circadian dive rhythmicity shape optimal foraging strategies in a polar marine mammal, the Weddell seal (Leptonychotes weddellii), Communications Biology ...

Weddell seals are the world's southernmost mammals, and among the cutest, dwelling in the Antarctic and spending nearly all of their time underwater, foraging. They're capable of stupendously deep ...