2 hours of sleep? How this animal can survive is a mystery. Tiny number of elephant seal 'supermoms' produce most pups Tiny number of elephant seal 'supermoms' produce most pups Great White Shark ...

Seals range in size from the 1 m (3 ft 3 in) and 45 kg (99 lb) Baikal seal to the 5 m (16 ft) and 3,200 kg (7,100 lb) southern elephant seal, which is also the largest carnivoran.[b] Several ...

Friends of the Elephant Seal is holding a contest to guess exactly when the first mature male might arrive on Central Coast ...

The accompanying footage shows a massive elephant seal – they can weigh 4,500 pounds – hauling ashore in Mulege , Mexico, in July 2022, disrupting a family beach outing.

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 ...

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

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 ...

SINCE 1950, efforts have been made by biologists of the Australian National Antarctic Research Expedition at Heard Island to collect material for the study of the embryology of the elephant seal ...

For a male elephant that is around 595 pounds. There are differences between the two species’ size and ears, but there are ...

"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 ...

Allen, Sarah G. Lau, Matthew J. and Codde, Sarah A. 2024. An observation of potential altruism by a male northern elephant seal (Mirounga angustirostris). Marine Mammal Science, Vol. 40, Issue. 3, How ...

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