focusing on the behavior of an animal or placing it within the context of a specific underwater location, always with the aesthetics in mind. Matthew Smith (UK/Australia) carefully photographs a ...

Sealnap anyone? Mediterranean monk seals have been caught on video snoozing underwater. Completely motionless, either on their bellies or sides, they seem to fall fast asleep with their eyes and ...

Now, scientists have spotted gray seals using yet another form of underwater communication: surprisingly loud clapping. Researchers caught footage of a male gray seal swimming near the Farne ...

But now a new study shows that we actually have better underwater hearing than previously thought -- at certain frequencies we hear just as well as the seal. Millions of years ago, all mammals ...

Cziko and his colleagues were able to detect the otherworldly noises after two years of listening to Weddell seals (Leptonychotes weddellii) with a special hydrophone (an underwater microphone ...

New footage shows for the first time that seals clap underwater to ward off competitors and show off to potential mates. The action was captured on film for the first time by Dr. Ben Burville ...

Several young male northern elephant seals were caught on camera and detected by hydrophones. They appeared to be using the underwater observatory as a place to forage for fish. An elephant seal ...

NORTHUMBERLAND, England -- An underwater cameraman was left breathless when a playful seal removed his scuba mouthpiece with his nose and a flipper. Ben Burville was diving near the Farne Islands ...

Researchers have captured video footage of a wild grey seal “clapping” and producing a “gunshot-like sound” underwater for the first time. The video was part of an international study led ...

Now that's a photobomb. An English diver managed to get the experience of a lifetime after he took underwater images — and was embraced by a seal. Ben Burville, an NHS doctor and visiting marine ...

NORTHUMBERLAND, England -- An underwater cameraman was left breathless when a playful seal removed his scuba mouthpiece with his nose and a flipper. Ben Burville was diving near the Farne Islands ...