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Antarctic fur seals need ice-free ground in order to breed. Why are they disappearing? Leopard seals are the only seals that prey on other seal species although fur seals have rarely been on the menu ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. With 5 million Antarctic fur seal residing on the island, South Georgia contains 95 percent of the species’ population. Though the ...

Antarctic Fur Seal Pups amid Tussock Grass. Credit: Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.0 Antarctic fur seals that were hunted to near extinction have recovered but now face dangerous decline because of a ...

Two hundred years ago, on Nov. 17, Connecticut ship captain Nathaniel Palmer spotted the Antarctic continent, one of three parties to do so in 1820. Unlike explorers Edward Bransfield and Fabian von ...

Antarctic fur seals that were hunted to near extinction have recovered but now face dangerous decline because of a lack of food, new research suggests. The study of fur seals, almost all of which live ...

The climate crisis is limiting the availability of krill —small crustaceans that are vital in the marine food chain— during summer in some areas of the Antarctica. This involves a decrease in the food ...

This article was originally published by Hakai Magazine. In the Antarctic, the fur-seal population is booming. Having rebounded from near eradication by hunters in the 18th and 19th centuries, ...

The Antarctic fur seal population has grown and shrunk over the past 50,000 years as the climate has changed, a genetic analysis suggests – and the finding could help us predict where the marine ...

Each year, elephant seals take a month or so to shed their worn fur for a new coat. Photo Credit: Tom Stieghorst Robert's Island, ANTARCTICA -- Seeing a single elephant seal is enough to make one stop ...