Every year, up to 10,000 elephant seals — the giant, blubbery pinnipeds that can weigh 5,000 pounds, grow as long as a Toyota ...

Some facts about the Southern Elephant Seal, males are typically 5 to 6 times heavier than females; Southern elephant seal size varies by region: those in South Georgia can be 30% heavier than ...

There is little chance you'll overlook an elephant seal on the beaches of Point Reyes National Seashore. Elephant seals are not your small, cuddly marine mammals. They are behemoths. At the upper end ...

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.

The first elephant seal pup of the breeding season appeared on the south beach of the Piedras Blancas viewpoint on Dec. 8. Sharp-eyed Kris Clifford noticed the pup on the Friends of the Elephant ...

A female elephant seal has launched herself out onto the sand at Camps Bay to undergo moulting, creating quite a spectacle for passers-by. The energy-intensive process, which takes about a month ...

As autumn turns to winter on the Central Coast, one of the markers of the changing season is the return of the northern elephant seals to beaches south of Big Sur and just north of Monterey Bay at ...