The consequences of Antarctic ice loss are serious and varied and monitoring the issue faces challenges as American ...

'Crab-eater Seals'. This image was taken when photographer Sue Flood was working on the Antarctic Peninsula and shows three crabeater seals on an ice float. Crab-eater seals in Antarctica have ...

Australia is surrounded by the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu. And it is morphing as sea animals and birds bring it ever closer to these shores.

Geographically, the most notable case is Tay Head (Joinville Island), where the virus prevalence is particularly high. In this area, the infection has severely affected crabeater seals.

Pack-ice killer whales are known to hunt different species of seal in Antarctica - leopard seals, Weddell seals and crabeater seals, pictured here.

Leopard Seal Diet: What Do Leopard Seals Eat? Leopard seals may be best known for their diet of penguins, but as generalist predators, they enjoy prey from all trophic levels. This includes the pups ...

Solitary crabeater seals are only spotted on Victoria’s shores an average of once a decade, and there are only 112 confirmed sightings on record.

UNCW researchers received a nearly $60,000 grant to support research on the physiological impacts of climate change on crabeater seals in Antarctica.

The sea was relatively calm when Cristobal launched his drone from a small rubber dinghy in the Errera Channel of the Antarctic Peninsula. Rising above the sea, the drone revealed a small ice floe ...

Antarctic krill are about 90 percent of the crabeater seals’ diet, but the abundance of the crustaceans has steadily decreased over the past few decades as a result of sea ice loss and krill fishing. ...

More leopard seals have been recorded on SA beaches annually in the past five years compared to the previous 30 years, but no one knows why.