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

Sophia is your community news reporter covering the North Coast of San Luis Obispo County, including Los Osos, Morro Bay, Cayucos, Cambria and San Simeon. Pupping season has officially begun with ...

There is little chance you'll overlook an elephant seal on the beaches of Point Reyes National Seashore. Elephant seals are not your small, cuddly marine mammals. They are behemoths. At the upper end ...

The first elephant seal pup of the breeding season appeared ... will reach up the beach this weekend. Winter can’t swim much yet, and hasn’t nursed long enough to gain much blubber.

northern elephant seals spend about nine months of the year ... Born without blubber and unable to swim, newborns are vulnerable to other animals, severe winter storms and other variables ...

The latest population count provides a sight unseen for 150 years when these islands were once home to 150,000 elephant and ...

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An elephant seal pup marks the first of the season born at Point Reyes National Seashore in Northern California, rangers reported. “Welcome to the world little one!” rangers said in a Dec.