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, ...

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 ...

Fireworks divide opinions like few other subjects. To us as people, fireworks are either an exciting visual and auditory ...

New recordings show Hawaiian monk seals use many more sounds than scientists ever realized.

Leopard seals are an abundant species of predator in Antarctica. These large, carnivorous sea mammals live in the water and around the ice of one of the most unfriendly and harshest environments on ...

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 ...

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 ...