As I See It,” a weekly photo column by Pulitzer Prize winner Stan Grossfeld, brings the stories of New England to Globe ...

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

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 ...

A study at Cape Shirreff finds most leopard seals specialize in prey, showing unique feeding habits that influence Antarctic food chains and ecosystems.

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 ...

A leopard seal on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica, on Jan. 27, 2024. (Juan Barreto/AFP/Getty Images/TNS) Juan Barreto/AFP/Getty Images North America/TNS ...

The study, published in Ecology and Evolution, analyzed whisker samples from 34 individual leopard seals in the Western Antarctic Peninsula.

Seals possess a highly sensitive whisker sensing system that enables them to perform tasks such as predation and environment sensing. Drawing inspiration from the hydrodynamic tactile function of seal ...

It's easy to overlook a seal's whiskers when faced with those puppy-dog eyes and smiling snout. But it's those vibration—sensitive whiskers that are the secret weapon in the seal's tracking ...

A 100-year-old stuffed hippo has helped biologists better understand how mammals use their whiskers. Billie, a former resident of London Zoo in the 1920s, was taken out of the Leeds Museums archives ...