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 menu ...

'This animal lives so deep within the Antarctic pack ice that its life history is not very well understood,' photographer Justin Hofman wrote ...

Scientists from UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography and the Scripps Polar Center are at the bottom of the ...

Eight years after her last major expedition to Antarctica, biologist Terrie Williams is back on the ice. This time, however, her team began the expedition during the Antarctic winter, the harshest ...

From a dish made by your hometown restaurant to candy you searched for on Halloween, most people have an all-time favorite food. Humans are omnivores with a diverse diet, but there is still a large ...

Leopard seals are an abundant species of predator in Antarctica. These large, carnivorous sea mammals live in the water and around the ice of one of the most unfriendly and harshest environments on ...

The ink-dark seas were glassy and the conditions mild in one of the most rapidly warming environments on Earth. Here live the ...

Researchers outfitted the seals with Conductivity Temperature Depth-Satellite Relay Dive Loggers, which collected a total of 8,913 days of behavioral data from 59adult seals. The data shed light on ...

Melting sea ice has been a challenge for wildlife in the Arctic and Antarctic. A recent study published in Global Change Biology demonstrates how the changing environmental conditions are leading to ...

Vicki Koterba of Moorhead is on a 13-day Antarctic adventure, seeing icebergs, penguins, seals and whales on a trip she’s ...