Individual leopard seals specialize in specific prey types despite being generalist species, reshaping ecosystem dynamics.

Researchers have noted they tend to eat more crabeater seal pups in November, for example, as they grow in availability, while leopard seals forage more krill during late September as well as March.

This year’s winning images include a curious leopard seal, a swarm of jellyfish, and a very grumpy looking Japanese warbonnet. Given our oceans’ perilous state, all competition participants were ...

A penguin that had escaped a leopard seal took a boat ride with a group of tourists back to an iceberg. Tourist expedition guide and photographer Vladimir Seliverstov, 50, captured the moment an ...

When the penguin jumps into the water, the seal ambushes it. The leopard seal uses suction to eat smaller fish and crustaceans. When it hunts for krill, the leopard seal uses filter feeding.

Leopard Seal Behavior. ... since the jaws of leopard seals are so powerful that they can literally “flay a penguin by shaking it so violently its skin peels off,” as the photographer writes. ...

They also accelerate and porpoise just as they’re leaving their colonies on a feeding mission, and when they’re approaching their colonies on the return journey. These are the critical times when a ...

The penguin who arrived in Australia did not seem to have been flummoxed too much by its new surroundings, even when finding itself on a beach with surfers, instead of sea ice. The penguin ...

The male leopard seal produced 65 underwater calls, primarily low- and high-double trills, directed at the female. The female made seven in-air calls, including thump pulses, noseblasts and growls.