Every winter, about 10,000 elephant seals make their way to California’s Año Nuevo State Park, to fight, mate and give birth.

Each winter, thousands of massive northern elephant seals gather at California’s Año Nuevo State Park for their breeding ...

The virus has infected elephant seals in the Southern Hemisphere, triggering what researchers describe as an unprecedented ...

Three elephant seals returned to the ocean Wednesday morning, Oct. 2, marking what the Marine Mammal Care Center in San Pedro said was the final release of a busy season for the species. The release ...

Huge die-offs of elephant seals occurred after the virus gained nearly 20 troublesome new mutations, scientists found. By Apoorva Mandavilli Elephant seals in South America died in massive numbers ...

Necklace, an elephant seal with plastic wrapped around her neck, rests on the beach at high tide on May 6, 2024. A Marine Mammal Center team was able to remove the plastic after isolating and sedating ...

What can an elephant seal – a 4,000 pound, bellowing monstrosity that looks like a melted Yankee Candle – teach us about the world? Plenty, it turns out. “The animals are amazing. I mean, everything ...

A year after an outbreak of H5N1 killed thousands of elephant seals in Argentina, only about a third of the seals normally expected here returned, scientists estimate. The sounds of barking elephant ...

A baby seal found on land in Redondo Beach this week could be a sign of a high sea mammal stranding season, marine experts say. Redondo Beach resident Anna Tyutina saw an elephant seal pup on the town ...

Ferocious human-like monsters that battle hobbits and heroes in the blockbuster film “The Fellowship of the Ring” owe their voices to a serendipitous drive into the fog-swept Marin Headlands and a Bay ...