Our seals have travelled from as far as the deep seas off Alaska to reach the bay. Northern elephant seals are the largest true seal in the Northern Hemisphere. When males reach puberty at about 7 ...

Northern elephant seals sleep while drifting hundreds of metres below the sea surface - at depths where their predators do not usually lurk. US researchers tracked the animals, recording their ...

New research of northern elephant seals has revealed their reproductive and foraging success has been affected by a population bottleneck which nearly caused their extinction and could make them ...

The 5,000-pound bull actually has its sights set on another male ... A male elephant seal, easily identified by his trunk-like nose, rises among a pack of females and pups. (Pat Pemberton/Courthouse ...

UC Santa Cruz A northern elephant seal mother moves towards a speaker playing the sound of her pup's call "It was dramatic - we see the recognition after just a day or two," said Dr Casey.