Marine biologists at the University of California Santa Cruz have tagged thousands of northern elephant seals with smart ...

A new study led by UC Santa Cruz marine biologist Roxanne Beltran to be published as the February 14 cover story for Science ...

By studying elephant seals' hunting patterns, scientists have discovered a new way to monitor deep-sea fish populations.

Northern elephant seals may hold the key to unlocking the secrets of the open ocean’s twilight zone (~200 – 1,000 meters deep). According to a new study, these deep-diving creatures can help estimate ...

Northern elephant seals may hold the key to unlocking the secrets of the open ocean's twilight zone (~200 – 1,000 meters deep). According to a new ...

An elephant seal pup cries out on a crowded beach in San Simeon. (Pat Pemberton/Courthouse News) SAN SIMEON, Calif. (CN) — Sensing trouble, four elephant seal pups scamper in different directions as a ...

That's the way one scientist puts it — referring to how infected wild birds survive long enough to spread it to birds and ...

This audio recording is a natural threat call of a northern elephant seal followed by four modified signals (pulse rate slowed down by 0.15 Hz and 1 Hz, centroid of the frequency spectrum shifted ...

Elephant seals viewed from a drone on South Georgia (Pic BAS) A team of researchers are using drones and satellite images from space to count southern elephant seals on the sub-Antarctic Island of ...

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 ...

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 species exhibit sexual dimorphism. They have streamlined bodies and ...