How to Survive explains how to escape a leopard seal in Arctic waters by understanding its behavior and using quick, strategic actions to evade attack. They provide tips for staying calm and ...

According to Kjelstrup, Arctic seals retain 94 percent of the moisture ... “If nature manages to create such great heat exchangers, I think we should copy that in engineering to create more ...

To make the task even more complex ... from a wood and bone harpoon - made from a seal or walrus bladder, a pair of socks made from woven Arctic tundra grass and an ivory harpoon made of narwhal ...

The seals need at least 8 inches (20 centimeters) of snow cover to make their shelters. While the mid-winter snowfall rate is expected to increase slightly by the end of the century, Arctic sea ...

Scientists in Canada's Arctic have discovered the fossil of a previously unknown web-footed carnivore that helps explain how seals developed from land-based mammals. The primitive animal ...

especially considering the changing ice conditions in the Arctic. In 2019, the Kotzebue area saw extremely diminishing sea ice and uncharacteristically early breakup, which allowed bearded seal ...

The researchers used computer tomography to make 3D models of the nasal cavities/maxilloturbinates of an Arctic species of seal, the bearded seal (Erignathus barbatus), and a subtropical species ...

The nonprofit organization Arctic Education Foundation ... Wainwright hunters already harvest seals and caribou, and they will only need to make small adjustments to their hunting practices ...

Arctic seals have evolved a nifty adaptation for staying warm in icy climes: intricate, maze-like bones in their noses. Many birds and mammals, including humans, have a pair of thin, porous nasal ...

A ringed seal (Pusa hispida) peaks its head above water in the Laptev Sea near Bolshoy Begichev Island, Russia. ( Кирилл Уютнов/Wikimedia Commons via Courthouse News) (CN) — Conservation protections ...