Underwater sounds of Leptonychotes weddellii were played back to these seals at McMurdo Sound, Antarctica, 17-19 November 1964. They responded vocally to playback of good fidelity as if another seal ...

Researchers are exposing the secrets of the world’s southernmost mammal, the Weddell seal. These seals, found in Antarctica’s Erebus Bay, live in rapidly changing environments. They can weigh up to ...

The fieldwork by an eight-member team at McMurdo Station in Antarctica provides a rare glimpse into the habits of two very important Southern Ocean species, the Antarctic silverfish and the Antarctic ...

Dec. 8, 2004 — -- Antarctica's landscape is so harsh it has humbled even the most seasoned adventurers and made prying knowledge from the continent a dangerous enterprise. Little is known about ...

For several years, a team of researchers from the Alfred Wegener Institute used underwater microphones to listen for seals at the edge of the Antarctic. Their initial findings, just released in the ...

On an Antarctica expedition, photographer and filmmaker Bertie Gregory witnessed what looked like two humpback whales saving the life of a Weddell seal from a pod of killer whales. A lone seal was ...

Weddell seals are chirping, whistling and trilling under Antarctica's ice at sound frequencies that are inaudible to humans, according to biologists. Two years of recordings have captured nine types ...

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A galactic spaceship? An inter-dimensional transporter? The cries of a distant alien civilization? No, these sci-fi noises are the real sounds of a seal found right here on Earth. We all know what ...

If you were assembling a marine research team, would you get a seal or two on board? With elephant seals listing skills like changing colour by simply sitting in their own excrement, and Weddell seals ...

EUGENE, Ore. -- Dec. 21, 2020 -- Weddell seals are chirping, whistling and trilling under Antarctica's ice at sound frequencies that are inaudible to humans, according to a research team led by ...