Matthew Smith (UK/Australia) carefully photographs a curious leopard seal beneath the Antarctic ice. It was late in the day and Matthew had to work quickly in the fading light. He squeezed into his ...

It is at this site that the first leopard seal (Hydrurga leptonyx) specimen was recently recovered from a Pleistocene and Holocene zooarchaeological assemblage along South Africa's coast.

Thomas Peschak (Germany/South Africa) comes face to face with a leopard seal in its rapidly disappearing home. Thomas floated in the distance, waiting for the shy leopard seal to emerge. All around ...

The fully functioning stick contained images of sea lions and a video of a mother playing with her baby. The sample was submitted by a vet who had been monitoring a sickly-looking leopard seal on ...