Seal Facts
Seals like this one photographed during the Sea Ice Physics and Ecosystem Experiment (SIPEX-II) in Antarctica, depend on sea ice to survive. They hunt for food, such as fish and krill,
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Creature Feature: Elephant Seal
About Elephant seals You may have seen (and heard) elephant seals on a beach: roaring, clumsy and (let''s face it) terrifying as they jostle for mates. These enormous, blubbery marine mammals
The Return of the Seals
WHOI biologist Rebecca Gast examines whether the recovered and thriving population of gray seals in Cape Cod waters has affected water quality off the beaches they frequent.
The Return of the Seals
The sites included beaches in six towns near where seals haul out: Provincetown, Truro, Wellfleet, Eastham, Orleans, and Chatham. In particular, she examined how many times levels of bacteria
Studying How Seals Adapt to Extreme Environments Could Lead to
However, seals appear to manipulate how glucose is transferred between maternal and fetal blood differently from all other animals studied to date and may provide insight into early intervention for
Seal Whiskers Inspire Marine Technology
Could seals also use their whiskers to “feel” the surrounding water patterns to track fish that swim by? In the early 2000s, marine biologists at the University of Rostock in Germany began to
Weddell seals in the Antarctic strategically time their most extreme
New research shows Weddell seals avoid making extreme dives for prey during midday, allowing the seals to keep diving over and over without having to pause for long. This allows them to
Weddell seal moms sacrifice to provide for their pups
Weddell seals, which are excellent divers, during lactation provide so much iron to their pups that the mothers then dramatically limit their own diving and underwater foraging capabilities.
Field research from the heart
Heart Monitors for seal pups are helping scientists track animal health Images and captions, credits are here Woods Hole, Mass. (February 14, 2025) -- Every winter, about 300,000
The value of iron for a seal
The seals'' whiskers act as a sort of dietary timeline, incorporating molecular signatures from various food sources as they grow. Using a technique called stable isotope analysis, the