Every winter, about 10,000 elephant seals make their way to California’s Año Nuevo State Park, to fight, mate and give birth.

The virus has infected elephant seals in the Southern Hemisphere, triggering what researchers describe as an unprecedented ...

Three elephant seals returned to the ocean Wednesday morning, Oct. 2, marking what the Marine Mammal Care Center in San Pedro said was the final release of a busy season for the species. The release ...

Huge die-offs of elephant seals occurred after the virus gained nearly 20 troublesome new mutations, scientists found. By Apoorva Mandavilli Elephant seals in South America died in massive numbers ...

Necklace, an elephant seal with plastic wrapped around her neck, rests on the beach at high tide on May 6, 2024. A Marine Mammal Center team was able to remove the plastic after isolating and sedating ...

A female elephant seal named Lu-seal hauled out at Gouritsmond for moulting, with volunteers urging the public to keep their ...

What can an elephant seal – a 4,000 pound, bellowing monstrosity that looks like a melted Yankee Candle – teach us about the world? Plenty, it turns out. “The animals are amazing. I mean, everything ...

A baby seal found on land in Redondo Beach this week could be a sign of a high sea mammal stranding season, marine experts say. Redondo Beach resident Anna Tyutina saw an elephant seal pup on the town ...

A livestream camera recorded two people throwing stones at a seal on a California beach, reported The Sacramento Bee. The ...