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, ...

When the carcasses of headless baby harbor seals began emerging on the Northern California coastline close to a decade ago, researchers hadn’t seen anything like it before. The thick mats of ice plant ...

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 ...

A pioneering study led by Baylor University biologist Sarah Kienle, Ph.D., and published in the journal Polar Biology has unveiled the first paired observations of sexual behavior and vocalizations in ...

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 ...