By studying elephant seals' hunting patterns, scientists have discovered a new way to monitor deep-sea fish populations.

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 ...

A live feed broadcast from the seafloor off Chile ignited a frenzy online when it showed a pile of large conical-shaped teeth 700 feet deep ... or a leopard seal, the team concluded.

Antarctica, despite its harsh conditions, is home to unique species like leopard seals ... or the "yeti crab," lives near deep-sea hydrothermal vents. This deep-sea squat lobster is particularly ...

The fully functioning stick contained images of sea lions and a video of a mother playing with her baby. The sample was submitted by a vet who had been monitoring a sickly-looking leopard seal on ...

A single leopard seal staring straight into the camera seems almost like a sentinel, admonishing humanity for the shrinking sea ice on which it depends.” Leopard seals are widespread and abundant.

Not only are leopard seals dependent on sea ice for breeding, moulting and resting, their main prey, penguins and krill, are reliant on it too. The shrinking Antarctic sea ice is allowing fishing ...