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 ...

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 ...

The leopard seal is a solitary apex predator that lives in Antarctic waters. Here, they rely on floating sea ice to rest upon. Every spring—from late October to early January—the male leopard seals ...

A leopard Seal on ice floe in Port Lockroy at Wiencke-Island. Antarctica. This rising din threatens to drown out the ocean’s own voices—songs so well-structured that a leopard seal’s (Hydrurga ...

Male leopard seals in Antarctica sing underwater "songs" that are surprisingly similar to human nursery rhymes. A recent study found that these songs are highly structured and repetitive, with a ...

While documenting leopard seals in Antarctica for a 2006 National Geographic magazine story, photographer Paul Nicklen had an experience that he says "will stay with me forever" (see Nicklen's photos) ...