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 ...

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.

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 ...