The endangered big cats are hanging on in Russia, the first country-wide survey of the animal suggests, while scientists and ...

The formally feathered, flightless aquatic birds known as penguins dominate the frigid waters surrounding the subantarctic ...

Following the sighting, the forest department have been taking measures to prevent any untoward incident. Representational Pic/File A leopard sighting was reported in the Durg Tekdi area of Nigdi ...

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In the fall of 2021, Renato Borras-Chavez, a marine mammal ecologist at the University of Rhode Island, spotted a leopard seal on an ice floe. Borras-Chavez was on a research expedition to a glacial ...

It was a still October night in Kurseong, in tea-garden-draped Darjeeling, nestled in the Eastern Himalaya. Dog barks pierced the bucolic calm of the forest-fringe settlement. A leopard had raided a ...

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 aggressive ...

A leopard Seal on ice floe in Port Lockroy at Wiencke-Island. Antarctica. CREDIT: Martin Zwick/REDA/Universal Images Group via Getty Images. Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, ...

Male leopard seals call out for hours on end during the breeding season, using five sounds to compose unique “songs.” Researchers analyzed the underwater vocalizations of male leopard seals in the ...

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Leopard seals may be one of Antarctica’s most fearsome predators, but these vocalizers sing with the structured charm of a child’s nursery rhyme. In a surprising new study, researchers found that the ...