Seal whiskers detect disturbances in the water, providing them with information about their surroundings. For seals searching for fish in dark or murky waters, whiskers can pick up invisible ...

Alix Morris' "A Year With the Seals" is a love letter to these charismatic, imperiled beings and an exploration of the ...

Seal whiskers have unique shapes, different lengths and widths, and varied orientation along the animal’s entire nose. “They distinguish prey by the type of movement and can navigate toward it. Even ...

Dr. Yaqing Jin's research on seal whisker-inspired sensors enhances offshore wind energy safety by detecting turbulence and monitoring environmental conditions.

Harbor seals have a face full of whiskers, which the seals use to follow hydrodynamic wakes left by prey fish; even a blind seal can track a fish this way, discriminating victims by size and shape ...

News Release 5-Nov-2024 Seal whiskers inspire engineer’s offshore turbine sensor design Grant and Award Announcement University of Texas at Dallas image: ...

The young seal sniffed the air timidly, and waited. Slowly, he inched his way out of the crate, then picked up speed as he belly-hauled his way down the beach, splashed into the sea and was gone.

Leopard seals were sedated and their whiskers collected over a period of 10 years until 2023 through the U.S. Antarctic Marine Living Resources Program monitoring the ecosystem at Cape Shirreff on ...

The young seal sniffed the air timidly, and waited. Slowly, he inched his way out of the crate, then picked up speed as he belly-hauled his way down the beach, splashed into the sea and was gone.

Thanks to conservation efforts, the seals with the big, round eyes and prominent whiskers are now making a remarkable comeback. Nearly half of their estimated global population of 800 live in ...