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 ...

Just a few years after Cook's voyage, whalers and sealers sailed south. Expeditions harvested the Antarctic fur seals that crowded onto island beaches to mate each summer. With no experience of ...

A marine biologist at the British Antarctic Survey has been killed by a leopard seal as she snorkelled. The seal attacked Kirsty Brown without warning and dragged her underneath the water as she ...

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 ...

A British scientist died after being attacked by a huge seal while snorkelling in the Antarctic. Marine biologist Kirsty Brown, 28, was studying the movement of icebergs when the animal struck ...

Elephant seals normally live on sub-Antarctic islands as well as in southern ... A previous seal that lived in Portland, a much smaller fur seal also called Sammy, had to be put down in 2019 ...