A Southern elephant seal makes a surprise visit to the residential neighborhood of Gordon’s Bay in Cape Town, South Africa, ...

A rare sighting on Vashon Island has beachgoers talking after a massive elephant seal was spotted this week molting along one of the island’s popular beaches.

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — A large elephant seal took a wrong turn and was seen lumbering along a street in a coastal ...

Explore elephants in the wild! Learn about African and Asian elephant differences, trunks, tusks, eating/drinking habits, social behaviors, and their love for muddy water.

Federal wildlife authorities are searching for a person of interest in the stabbing of a baby elephant seal on an Oregon beach, leaving it injured with multiple wounds. The 225-pound pup was ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — An elephant seal pup was stabbed on a beach along the Oregon Coast. The seal pup survived but sustained multiple stab wounds, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ...

Elephant seals undergo an annual “catastrophic molt” in which they shed the entire outer layer of skin and hair (“pelage”). (Photo by Priya Ganguli) Cossaboon collected samples of molted elephant seal ...

Young northern elephant seals can be seen in and around the Bay Area. The animals can be easily observed in their natural environment in three areas, and also at a marine-mammal rehabilitation ...

Sound designer David Farmer of Novato, who recorded elephant seal vocalizations at The Marine Mammal Center in Sausalito, Calif. that were used in the Lord of the Rings movies. (courtesy of David ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife’s Marine Mammal Program captured and relocated an elephant seal pup that was resting at Neskowin’s South Beach on March 19.