When the elephant seal moved to the north beach in ... He was cautioned that it’s more difficult than it looks. It’s a pretty big seal, after all. The Marine Mammal Center estimated he weighs ...

The shocking moment two elephant seals are caught fighting on a beach has been caught on camera. Photographer Richard Sidey, ...

Famed park on the San Mateo County coast is getting an upgrade, just in time for its popular annual wildlife spectacle ...

Male elephant seals recognise the rhythm of one another's voices, researchers say. Scientists in the US "decoded" the calls of male elephant seals, revealing that vocal communication played a ...

Spending most of their lives at sea in the frigid waters of the southern seas, southern elephant seals are cold weather specialists. Their thick coat of blubber perfectly insulates them from the ...

"It's a cacophony in a seal colony," explains Dr Caroline Casey, where hundreds of mums and pups call at once. Now, research led by California-based scientists has revealed that mother elephant ...

Avian flu, also known as H5N1, spread through marine mammal colonies in Argentinian Patagonia in August 2023, nearly doubling the death rate among southern elephant seals in some areas.

When this elephant seal strayed on to their bit of the beach, these penguins weren't going to take it lying down. As a result, the young seal suffered a painful pinch on the behind as the gentoo ...

crowds got so big that the park had to set up guided tours with the help of marine biology students from UC Santa Cruz. Today there are more than 200,000 Northern elephant seals. They aren’t ...