Seals belong to a group of marine mammals called pinnipeds. There are over 30 different seal species, separated into three ...

What would happen if the fiercest marine predators swapped the salty sea for our freshwater lakes and rivers? It may sou ...

While it’s unlikely you’ll ever encounter one of these apex predators unless you find yourself down in the southern hemisphere, leopard seals wield a fearsome reputation and bite. Leopard seals are ...

Leopard seals are huge, armed with a mouthful of imposing teeth and have a colourful history of run-ins with humans. While their public image isn't great, there are still some gaps in our knowledge of ...

The death of a British marine biologist in Antarctica last month is thought to be the first human fatality caused by a leopard seal (Hydrurga leptonyx). But scientists fear further seal attacks as ...

Antarctic fur seals need ice-free ground in order to breed. Why are they disappearing? Leopard seals are the only seals that prey on other seal species although fur seals have rarely been on the ...

Leopard seals had always been considered an Antarctic species, residing predominantly within the pack ice. Births were always thought to occur on the ice flows surrounding the continent.

Their study also showed that leopard seals have the highest cortisol concentrations of any pinniped, including seals, sea lions and walruses. The recent research was funded by a grant from the ...

It is at this site that the first leopard seal (Hydrurga leptonyx) specimen was recently recovered from a Pleistocene and Holocene zooarchaeological assemblage along South Africa's coast.

Killer whales rarely risk hunting leopard seals – Antarctica’s second top predator. But when reinforcement whales appear, this group of killer whales has a technique for capturing this ...