New research shows male elephant seals can remember the voices of past rivals, using vocal cues to decide whether to fight or ...

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Few sights feel sweeter than a baby seal meeting water for the first time. In one widely shared Instagram reel, a fuzzy, fat ...

There’s perhaps no more fascinating Bay Area day trip than hanging with the bellowing animals of Año Nuevo State Park.

In 2023, bird flu reached a remote island in the southern Atlantic Ocean. Now, South Georgia—home to the world’s largest southern elephant seal population—has been transformed. Drone images of the ...

Patrick McHale (“Over the Garden Wall”), Ian Jones-Quartey (“OK K.O.! Let’s Be Heroes”), Rebecca Sugar (“Steven Universe”) and Pendleton Ward (“Adventure Time”) are teaming up for “Adult Swim’s The ...

Mature bull elephant seals, foraging at sea for the past ten or twelve weeks, will start arriving a tPiedras Blancas any day. They are at their biggest and loudest now. They are ready for action. The ...

After the H5N1 virus hit the remote island of South Georgia in 2023, more than 50,000 breeding females may have disappeared. Many southern elephant seals breed on the beaches of South Georgia island ...

For the last year and a half, Americans have watched and worried as H5N1 bird flu racked dairy herds and killed hundreds of millions of commercially raised chickens, turkeys and ducks. But far less ...