Two young elephant seals show off their growing noses as they spar in the surf at the Piedras Blancas rookery north of San Simeon in San Luis Obispo County. Christine Heinrichs Every day, more young ...

Friends of the Elephant Seal is even holding a contest to guess when the first bull will arrive for the breeding season.

After the H5N1 virus hit the remote island of South Georgia in 2023, more than 50,000 breeding females may have disappeared.

The male elephant seals at Point Reyes National Seashore are large and in charge. While they visit Point Reyes beaches at various times throughout the year, the real action happens during mating and ...

GONYEA: Turns out the sounds and rhythms of individual elephant seals are unique. And once the alpha male's signature call is heard, even if it's recorded and played back over loudspeakers, other ...

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment. Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the ...

The authorities said that the attack, which the seal survived, occurred on a cold evening in a cove along the Pacific Coast. By Adeel Hassan For several weeks, federal wildlife officials have been ...