Shastri Akella’s debut novel "The Sea Elephants" is out now. (Author photo courtesy Subhadra Madhavan; book cover courtesy of the publisher) Contemporary Western society romanticizes the idea of ...

Elephant seals sleep about 10 hours a day on the beach, but during months-long foraging trips at sea they average just 2 hours of sleep per day. These 2-month-old northern elephant seals are sleeping ...

A biologist at Scripps Institution of Oceanography has found that elephant seals take multiple 10-minute naps during their nearly 10-month foraging trips out to sea. Like us, elephant seals need to ...

When a sea lion is found stranded anywhere between Long Beach and Malibu, chances are a volunteer with the Marine Mammal Care Center in San Pedro will play an important role in its rescue. The ...

Maybe you didn't get enough sleep last night, but chances are you're still doing better than the typical northern elephant seal. Scientists have discovered the massive creatures — so named because the ...

A distressed elephant that had been swept some 10 miles out to sea was rescued during a 12-hour effort that was caught on video. The Sri Lankan Navy and Department of Wildlife officers worked to ...

PITTSBURGH (WPXI) – The Pittsburgh Zoo & Aquarium is addressing the recent deaths of five of its zoo animals, three of which died this month. On Monday, the zoo’s CEO Jeremy Goodman addressed the ...

For the first time, scientists have recorded brain activity in a free-ranging, wild marine mammal, revealing the sleep habits of elephant seals during the months they spend at sea. The new findings, ...