A species of insect tags along with elephant seals as they spend months at sea, enduring the crushing pressure changes of the mammals’ dives.
Tag: Seals (Animals) and Sealing
How 14 Elephant Seals Assisted an Antarctic Ice Study
Mapping currents in the Southern Ocean is vital to monitoring climate change, but hard to conduct. So scientists turned to seals for help.
How Did a Virus From the Atlantic Infect Mammals in the Pacific?
Thawing sea ice may have opened the door, allowing the infection to cross oceans, a new study suggests.
Trilobites: Seeking Life in Antarctica? Look for the Penguins’ Outhouse
The continent, a researcher said, is the “ideal experimental lab,” for studying how nutrients relate to an ecosystem’s biodiversity.
Trilobites: How Seals Took to the Seas
By comparing the bones of ancient and contemporary seals, researchers say a particular biting style helped the marine mammals’ landlubber ancestors move into the oceans.
Did a Seal Eat Your Vacation Photos? A New Zealand Scientist Is Looking for You.
Researchers in New Zealand studying the feces of leopard seals found a USB drive containing photos and videos from someone’s 2017 vacation.
Seals Are Stranded in a Canadian Town, and People Wonder What to Do
For more than a week, seals have been in Roddickton-Bide Arms, Newfoundland, and they can’t seem to find their way home.
Six Decapitated Seal Pups Found on New Zealand Beach
Officials said people had hurt or killed seals before, in the mistaken belief that they are responsible for low fish stocks.
Drilling in the Arctic: Questions for a Polar Bear Expert
The Trump administration is reversing a longstanding ban on oil exploration on the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The area is home to about 900 polar bears, which are already struggling because of climate change. Can they withsta…