Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Elephant seal class of 2025 is arriving on the beach. The young seals, not yet in the breeding population, take over the beach at ...
The spring months bring more seals to Piedras Blancas than even the winter breeding season. All 5,000 or so adult females ...
On a beach in San Francisco, a crowd gathers to watch an elephant seal as it writhes in the sand. Concern increases as onlookers wonder what’s wrong with the animal. It seems to be in pain, but is not ...
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 ...
The shocking moment two elephant seals are caught fighting on a beach has been caught on camera. Photographer Richard Sidey, from Wanaka, New Zealand, took this footage on the shores of South Georgia ...
At its onset, no one knew how the bird flu would progress in the northern elephant seals at Año Nuevo, but this week, ...
This season’s Piedras Blancas elephant seal pups are now independent seals. Their mothers weaned them, abruptly, and left on their short spring migration. It’s on the pups now to develop the swimming ...
Elephant seals are huge, gray and blubbery. They have a big snout and a very distinctive voice. (SOUNDBITE OF ELEPHANT SEAL GRUNTING) SUMMERS: But despite the obvious differences, elephant seals ...
“The animals are amazing. I mean, everything they do is extreme,” said Daniel Costa, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at UC Santa Cruz. “They’re the deepest-diving pinniped and they dive ...