When this elephant seal strayed on to their bit of the beach ... a painful pinch on the behind as the gentoo penguins on Antarctica's South Shetland Islands saw off the intruder.

Last year avian influenza brought death to the picturesque island of South Georgia off Antarctica. This season scientists hope things will be different ...

Southern elephant seals are native to the cold waters of the Southern Ocean, in between South Africa and Antarctica. They usually dive deep for squid and fish, and occasionally show up on Western ...

Antarctica is the coldest ... Scientists also study the wildlife like penguins, elephant seals and seaweed.

The Antarctic fur seal, Arctocephalus gazella, would be hunted to the verge of extinction. The southern elephant seal too would be brought low, killed in great numbers for the oil rendered from ...

Northern elephant seals sleep while drifting hundreds of metres below the sea surface - at depths where their predators do not usually lurk. US researchers tracked the animals, recording their ...

During the 2023-24 Antarctic cruise season ... The main victims of the avian flu outbreak were not birds but elephant seals. These half-tonne colossi were not wiped out but have returned to ...