A new paper by post-doctoral researchers Emily Sperou and Renato Borras-Chavez in the journal Polar Biology discusses a unique phenomenon observed in a reclusive Antarctic animal: postmortem attentive ...

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 ...

A new study led by researchers at Baylor University and University of Rhode Island has uncovered surprising details about leopard seals' hunting habits, revealing that while the species is broadly ...

Chavez, a marine mammal ecologist at the University of Rhode Island, spotted a leopard seal on an ice floe. Borras-Chavez was ...

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 ...

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