Kienle's team observed a two-hour courtship interaction between a male and female leopard seal in Laguna San Rafael, Chile.

A study led by Baylor University biologist Sarah Kienle, Ph.D., and published in the journal Polar Biology has unveiled the ...

But first, we need you to sign in to PBS using one of the services below. Leopard seals are the only seals that prey on other seal species although fur seals have rarely been on the menu before.

Leopard Seals are among the most difficult top predators to study due to the combination of the extreme climate in Antarctica, the species’ solitary habits and their lethal reputation.

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.

Amidst the pristine but freezing waters surrounding the white continent, a unique insight into the mysterious daily lives of Leopard Seals and discover some never-before-filmed behaviors of these ...

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 ...

Attacked by a ferocious leopard seal, plunging into a bottomless crevasse, lost overnight in a near-hurricane-force blizzard, poisoned slowly by carbon moxonide. These four dizzying tales of ...

So it was a big surprise to discover wild leopard seals feeding alongside one another while eating king penguins at South Georgia, a remote island in the southern Atlantic Ocean. On top of this ...

Kienle and her team observed a two-hour courtship interaction between a male and female leopard seal in Laguna San Rafael, Chile, and documented a range of behaviors and vocalizations, highlighting ...

With the study showing that leopard seal sexual behaviors occur in Laguna San Rafael, the researchers show that leopard seals are breeding in South America. "More broadly, these observations of ...