With a synchronized flick of their tails, they aim the full force of their ... the exhausted leopard seal can fight no more. The killer whales deliver one precision bite to its powerful swim ...

Take the leopard seal. If it catches its penguin, Ms. Kienle says, it will devour the bird in a characteristic way: it will bite it, and then shake it until the penguin breaks into pieces that the ...

LEOPARD SEALS resemble their terrestrial ... for a lone seal to reduce a penguin to bite-sized chunks means whipping the prey around in its jaws with as much force as it can muster, in order ...

The world's only captive leopard seal, which washed up in Sydney with a shark bite to his abdomen seven years ago, has been put down at an Australian zoo, officials said Thursday. Casey stopped ...

Leopard seals (Hydrurga leptonyx) are large but slender seals, with big heads and jaws that give them a frightening, dinosaur-like appearance. They can be up to 3.4 metres (12 feet) long and weigh ...

Most of them were Australian, New Zealand or sub-Antarctic fur seals, or young leopard seals. Mr Kennedy said there was a misconception that seals came on to beaches because they were sick or ...

“These seals have a strange reptilian appearance with long, slender bodies, massive heads and tricuspid teeth … they can inflict a very nasty bite,” he said. “Leopard seals have large jaws ...

Marine rescue groups are asking beachgoers to keep an eye out for an injured leopard seal, that is struggling to survive after being bitten by what experts believe was a juvenile great white shark.