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Like their feline namesakes, leopard seals are fierce predators. They are the most formidable hunters of all the seals and the only ones that feed on warm-blooded prey, such as other seals.

A new study used northern elephant seals (Mirounga angustirostris) — marine predators that forage in the twilight zone — to help understand fish abundance deep down, both five decades into the ...

But with rapid environmental changes in their ocean home, the seals' population range has been shifting. Once spread across vast areas of the Southern Hemisphere, these apex predators are facing ...