The puncture marks on the 2022 birds were then matched to the teeth of fur seals. Australian fur seals are the largest species of fur seal, bigger than their South African Cape fur seal cousins.

A king penguin and fur seals seen on South Georgia Island have mutations that affect how their bodies make various pigments. An oddly colored king penguin stands out in a photograph taken at St ...

Rare pale-colored penguin and seals spotted on remote island. ... Recovering Fur Seal Population Threatened by El Nino. Recovering Fur Seal Population Threatened by El Nino. Watch. load more.

Travel; Dispatches from the bottom of the earth: Penguins, elephant seals star on cruise expedition to South Georgia Island and icy Antarctica. Published: ; Feb. 25, 2022, 7:58 a.m.

The world’s largest iceberg is heading towards a remote British island and could threaten millions of penguins and seals that live there. The huge iceberg A23a measures almost 1,500 square miles ...

In Antarctica, researchers have found areas rich with moss, lichen, and small-scale life, sustained in large part by elephant seal and penguin droppings. Stef Bokhorst, an ecologist at Vrije ...

image: The Antarctic fur seal is a marine mammal that only lives in the Southern Ocean. view more Credit: Lluís Cardona (UB-IRBio) The climate crisis is limiting the availability of krill ...

With 5 million Antarctic fur seal residing on the island, South Georgia contains 95 percent of the species’ population. Though the Antarctic climate and largely barren region makes it possible ...

In the Antarctic, the fur-seal population is booming. Having rebounded from near eradication by hunters in the 18th and 19th centuries, Antarctic fur seals are making their way to new frontiers.

- Antarctic fur seals need ice-free ground in order to breed. This is a population that experts thought would be climate change winners, that they would be doing better as the climate warmed, ...

Penguin and seal poo can help plants that are kilometres away. Nitrogen from the dung spreads to areas 200 times larger than the animals’ colonies in Antarctica , nourishing the plants and other ...