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Charting the seafloor with deep-diving animals can help scientists predict glacial and ice-sheet-melting physics

In an email to Insider, scientist Clive McMahon called the seals they adhered trackers to heroes. Robert Harcourt, IMOS Animal Tagging Scientists put trackers…

In the southeast Indian Ocean, turtle-borne sensors are filling in the gaps researchers need to forecast storms

In the southeast Indian Ocean, turtle-borne sensors are filling in the gaps scientists need to forecast storms.

At the start of each year, southern elephant seals living on Kerguelen Island above Antarctica shed the thick mat of their winter fur, while growing in a fresh layer of skin and hair. Once this new hair is in place, scientists choose some of the seals on which to affix funny-looking electric boxes adorned with […]

A group of elephant seals near Antarctica are on a mission to gather "critical" data about the ocean.