Leopard seals are an abundant species of predator in Antarctica. These large, carnivorous sea mammals live in the water and ...

At first glance, this leopard seal (Hydrurga leptonyx ... often patrolling the ice-choked waters of Antarctica in search of their next meal. Unlike their blubbery cousins who prefer fish and ...

A marine biologist at the British Antarctic Survey has been killed by a leopard seal as she snorkelled. The seal attacked Kirsty Brown without warning and dragged her underneath the water as she ...

While we expected to find birth and pup records from Antarctica, the extent of birth and pup sighting records from outside of that region has come as quite a big surprise.” Leopard seal birth ...

The leopard seal's now hiding in this channel that's ... I mean, I've been coming to Antarctica since 2009, that's the first time I've seen that behavior. - The leopard seals are really agile ...

A leopard seal like the one that clamped down on Gareth ... Sir Douglas Mawson in the late 1920s, during the second expedition he lead to Antarctica. The thought of wasted food galvanized him ...

leopard seals are solitary creatures and it is virtually unknown for them to attack humans. Tuesday's incident is believed to be the first fatal attack by a seal since the Scott Expedition of 1912.

As a result, the young seal suffered a painful pinch on the behind as the gentoo penguins on Antarctica's South Shetland Islands saw off the intruder. Clearly, the peck to the bottom hurt as the ...