Friends of the Elephant Seal is even holding a contest to guess when the first bull will arrive for the breeding season.

Drakes Beach in the Point Reyes National Seashore is temporarily closed to accommodate elephant seals that have set up camp for the breeding season. The annual ritual has brought at least 30 males to ...

In 2023, bird flu reached a remote island in the southern Atlantic Ocean. Now, South Georgia—home to the world’s largest ...

The first elephant seal pup of the breeding season appeared on the south beach of the Piedras Blancas viewpoint on Dec. 8. Sharp-eyed Kris Clifford noticed the pup on the Friends of the Elephant Seal ...

Majestic gray whales and lumbering elephant seals are back along the Point Reyes coastline, and visitors are getting a show. "It's pretty active out here," said John Golda, a ranger with the Point ...

After the H5N1 virus hit the remote island of South Georgia in 2023, more than 50,000 breeding females may have disappeared.

A 2,000-pound elephant seal nicknamed Nibbles has become an unwelcome seasonal resident at Jenner, where he has chased off the harbor seals and bit a surfer, a kayaker and, most recently, a dog. ''It ...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — A large elephant seal took a wrong turn and was seen lumbering along a street in a coastal town in South Africa early Tuesday, surprising residents and inspiring a ...

Drakes Beach in the Point Reyes National Seashore is temporarily closed to accommodate elephant seals that have set up camp for the breeding season. The annual ritual has brought at least 30 males to ...