An elephant seal forages for fish near an underwater observatory called in Berkley Canyon off the coast of British Columbia. This subsea lab named NEPTUNE is over 2,000 feet deep and a team of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Costa said the article could encourage other seal scientists to be on the lookout for similar behaviors. Northern elephant seals fast during the breeding season (roughly December to March), so ...

By Barinia Montoya 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 ...

A Bay Area elephant seal does something that has never seen before, ... “Normal elephant seal male behavior is they basically don’t even acknowledge the pups’ existence,” she said.

“Closures are a critical way to protect both elephant seals and the visiting public,” Perez-Foust said. “The unpredictable nature of elephant seal behavior, coupled with potential impacts to ...

Bigger elephant seals are older seals, ... “This is a great opportunity to learn more about elephant seal behavior in a unique environment,” FES board president Kathy Curtis said in a news ...

This subsea lab named NEPTUNE is over 2,000 feet deep and a team of scientists observed the seal’s feeding behaviors, ... northern elephant seals migrate from their molting and breeding sites ...