Southern elephant seals are the "canary in the coal mine" for the Southern Ocean, offering insight into how the ecosystem may ...

The bizarre, unexpected phenomenon of interspecies sex has only been recorded in scientific research once before -- when an Antarctic fur seal was sexually harassing king penguins, according to ...

The large northern fur seal, found in chilly northern waters, was hunted to near extinction during the 19th century. These animals were protected by law in 1911, and populations later rebounded to ...

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 ...

The Southern Ocean, which circles the globe without being blocked by land, is home to the Antarctic Circumpolar ... the Australian fur seal is now a protected species and the fourth rarest seal ...

Sampling and timely testing for avian influenza in remote locations like Antarctica and the sub-Antarctic islands is now a step closer thanks the ...

fur seals, brown skuas, kelp gulls and Antarctic terns. BAS operates two research stations on South Georgia: King Edward Point and Bird Island. As a result of the confirmed cases of HPAI ...