Their long-distance migrations and deep-diving behavior has primarily been tracked with adult female northern elephant seals because they have higher survival rates, return to the same sites more ...

Northern elephant seals have adapted to sleep and dive at the same time all while avoiding predators. New research, based on the recorded brainwaves of the seals, revealed the marine mammals get ...

The Friends of the Elephant Seal is now recruiting volunteers to become seasonal guides for the 2024 Winter Program at William R. Hearst Memorial Beach in San Simeon.

This spring, Beltran’s team outfitted 32 juvenile elephant seals with a newly developed “biologger,” a sophisticated tracking device that records each seal’s diving behavior, migration route, and ...

Year after year, a colony of elephant seals arrives in Jackson Bay, on the islands of Tierra del Fuego at the southern tip of Chile, to molt and breed. However, in 2023, an outbreak of avian flu ...

Over the past 60 years, marine biologists at UC Santa Cruz have monitored the behavior of northern elephant seals that journey to nearby Año Nuevo Natural Reserve. With the seals gathering on the ...

In an unlikely act of altruism observed two years ago, a male elephant seal prevented a younger animal from drowning.

“Normal elephant seal male behavior is they basically don’t even acknowledge the pups’ existence,” she said. “This male was fasting.

Juvenile elephant seals are on the beach at Piedras Blancas in San Luis Obispo County. A nonprofit is looking for volunteers for San Simeon Cove.

Their long-distance migrations and deep-diving behavior has primarily been tracked with adult female northern elephant seals because they have higher survival rates, return to the same sites more ...