Ringed seals in northwest Greenland are swimming into zones where polar bears concentrate, trading safety for access to a ...

When many types of fish are available, seals stay longer and dive deeper, even in dangerous areas. This shows that food variety can outweigh fear. In safer areas, seals spend less time diving because ...

A team of researchers has documented major changes in the behavior, ecology, and geographic range of the northern fur seal over the past 1,500 years using a combination of techniques from archaeology, ...

One female seal displayed postmortem attentive behavior (PAB) for at least 20 days, the longest documented case in pinnipeds and among the longest for any mammal. Their paper documents a previously ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Leopard seals are an abundant species of predator in Antarctica. These large, carnivorous sea mammals live in the water and around ...