Erebus Bay, Antarctica, is home to the southernmost population of the world's southernmost living mammal—the Weddell seal.

Warming temperatures may be changing the ways ice forms, making it more likely to stick to and injure polar bears in two far north populations.

Personal-use licences for seal hunting will be made available in Prince Edward Island and New Brunswick this year as part of a federal pilot project.

The seal had found refuge on a platform made of ice floating on water. The killer whales started by swimming side by side, which created a wave that cracked the seal's large ice platform into a ...

Japanese researchers in Antarctica are deploying Weddell seals fitted out with high-tech head-mounted measuring devices to survey waters under the thick ice sheet at the South Pole. It allows ...

While the Madelinot hotel had never cancelled the activity before 2010, it has been forced to do so eight times in the last 15 years due to the lack of ice strong enough to safely transport tourists.

Photographer: Justin Hofman a noise and bubble-free dive Hugh had filmed Weddell seals under the ice before, but the challenge was always the same. The Weddell seals would maintain their distance ...

Adults average 5.2 feet in length and range from 143 to 253 pounds in weight. HABITAT: The spotted seal occurs in the seasonally ice-covered subarctic and marginal seas adjacent to the North Pacific ...

or to get out onto the ice to feed after a long fasting period in the den. Several species of seal also rely on the ice to give birth in the spring.” A recent study suggested that 50-70% of the Arctic ...

But in the case of harp seals, it’s really quite simple. If we lose the sea ice in the Arctic, we lose the harp seals. Dr James Grecian is a post-doctoral researcher in the Department of ...

Weddell seals in Erebus Bay, Antarctica, may look like couch potatoes when they are resting on ice. However, these seals, which are the southernmost population of the southernmost living mammals, are ...