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Researchers are exposing the secrets of the world’s southernmost mammal, the Weddell seal. These seals, found in Antarctica’s Erebus Bay, live in rapidly changing environments. They can weigh up to ...

For several years, a team of researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute used underwater microphones to listen for seals at the edge of the Antarctic. Their initial findings, just released in the ...

Dec. 8, 2004 — -- Antarctica's landscape is so harsh it has humbled even the most seasoned adventurers and made prying knowledge from the continent a dangerous enterprise. Little is known about ...

Meet the smallest member of the Antarctic true seals: the Ross seal (Ommatophoca rossii). This species is the rarest, least studied, and least frequently seen of the Antarctic seals, which also ...

A new study of Antarctic seals shows that environmental conditions are leading to a severe decline in their populations in the South Orkney Islands. New results are published today (Wednesday 18 June) ...

A galactic spaceship? An inter-dimensional transporter? The cries of a distant alien civilization? No, these sci-fi noises are the real sounds of a seal found right here on Earth. We all know what ...

For several years, a team of researchers used underwater microphones to listen for seals at the edge of the Antarctic. Their initial findings indicate that sea-ice retreat has had significant effects ...