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.

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 ...

They chose a place on the ice in the strait between Winter Island, where the seal was born, and Galindez Island, where the "Akademik Vernadsky" is located. Now you can watch the sea baby right from ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Leopard seals primarily inhabit the Antarctic pack ice, but during autumn and winter animals disperse northward throughout the Southern Ocean, sometimes visiting New Zealand. Some animals have been ...