Leopard seals are an abundant species of predator in Antarctica. These large, carnivorous sea mammals live in the water and ...

Killer whales rarely risk hunting leopard seals - Antarctica's second-top predator. Killer whales rarely risk hunting leopard seals, Antarctica's second-top predator. But when reinforcements ...

Doctors believe she drowned. Although they are formidable hunters, leopard seals are solitary creatures and it is virtually unknown for them to attack humans. Tuesday's incident is believed to be ...

Which will increase the impact of the waves to follow. But the leopard seal has a counter move. - The leopard seal's now hiding in this channel that's been left in the ice. - The killer whales ...

Leopard seals had always been considered an Antarctic species, residing predominantly within the pack ice. Births were always thought to occur on the ice flows surrounding the continent.

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 ...