Paleoenvironmental study at Waterfall Bluff reveals leopard seal far from Antarctic waters

Waterfall Bluff Rock Shelter (WB) (Eastern Cape Province (ECP), South Africa) contains archaeological deposits demonstrating persistent and continuous human occupation spanning from Late Marine Isotope Stage 3 (~39ka–29ka) to the mid-Holocene (~8ka). 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.