With Drakes Beach becoming a popular breeding ground, parks officials have enacted seasonal closures, which this season began ...

Once driven to the brink of extinction, the elephant seals of the California coast now have a crucial haven in the form of ...

A subadult male elephant seal can be seen near sea lions in October 2024. Subadult elephant seals and sea lions frequently intermingle at rookeries along Península Valdés in Argentina.

Male elephant seals recognise the rhythm of one another's voices, researchers say. Scientists in the US "decoded" the calls of male elephant seals, revealing that vocal communication played a ...

In this process, southern elephant seals shed their fur and top layer of skin, as per the National Park Service. Wildlife ...

UC Santa Cruz researcher Caroline Casey records the vocalizations of a male elephant seal at Ano Nuevo State Reserve. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news ...

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had to be when cinematographer Matt Aeberhard and I filmed with the huge male southern elephant seals, or beachmasters, and their fight for the right to breed on the shores of Peninsular Valdes.

Despite a recent effort to cut the plastic from the male elephant seal’s neck, rescue has so far been unsuccessful — but that’s not stopping concerned volunteers and workers from continuing ...

Elephant seal pupping season at Point Reyes National Seashore has begun with the birth of the first pup, park officials ...

It’s a spectacle.” Male elephant seals sleep at Año Nuevo State Park in Pescadero, Calif., on Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2024. (Shae Hammond/Bay Area News Group) ...