MOSCOW (AP) — Authorities in Russia's Siberia region are investigating the deaths of 141 seals whose carcasses washed up on the shoreline of the world's deepest lake. The Irkutsk region's government ...

Skull and jaw demonstrating the highly specialized, comb-like teeth of the Baikal seal that allow them to expel water while retaining prey during high-speed hunting. This together with their small ...

Example of Baikal seal skull specimens. (a) Maxilla and (b) mandible tooth row. (c–f) Enlarged view of maxilla teeth. (c) Yellow arrows represent the number of cusps. (d) Yellow dashed line represents ...

Seals have a reputation for being the laid-back loungers of the animal kingdom, but there’s a lot more going on beneath that sleek surface. Seals, with dive times that rival submarines and milk fat ...

Dice with pretend ethical dilemmas, go under the ice of the world’s largest freshwater lake with the Baikal seal and hear that the James Webb Space Telescope has been dinged by a tiny micrometeoroid ...

This article was written as part of the Train to Copenhagen project, aimed at raising awareness of climate change in advance of the climate talks in Denmark in December. For more information about the ...