KINGSTON, R.I., Aug. 17 -- The University of Rhode Island issued the following news release:
KINGSTON, R.I. - Aug. 17, 2026 - The skulls have been sitting on museum shelves for more than a century. Many still carry handwritten tags and notes from the scientists and explorers who collected them in the late 1800s and early 1900s. These specimens preserve clues within their bones and teeth about the animals they came from-including their sex, age at death, and diet. Now, University of Rhode Island researchers are using those clues to address longstanding questions about leopard seal biology.
This summer, Emily Sperou, Ph.D., a postdoctoral researcher in URI's Comparative Ecophysiology of Animals Lab (CEAL), and Sarah Kienle, Ph.D., assistant...