Humpback whale songs are absolutely haunting, but here’s a marine mammal whose call is even more alien. This is the Weddell seal (Leptonychotes weddellii), an Antarctic pinniped whose vocalizations ...

Eight years after her last major expedition to Antarctica, biologist Terrie Williams is back on the ice. This time, however, her team began the expedition during the Antarctic winter, the harshest ...

The United Nations declared the 2020s the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development to highlight the need for public engagement, citizenship, and connection to harness positive change for ...

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 ...

Two Weddell seals relax atop the sea ice at McMurdo Sound, Antarctica. A University of Oregon-led research team has discovered that Weddell seals produce nine types of vocalizations at sound ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. Montana State University faculty and students have started their annual fall migration to ...

Weddell seals, the southernmost born mammal, are known as champion divers. But they don't begin life that way. Researchers examined the development of diving behavior in Weddell seal pups and found ...

Scientists onboard an icebreaker in Antarctica were blown away when they spied a trove of 60 million icefish nests dotting the floor of the Weddell Sea. The bonanza of nurseries — each guarded by a ...