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 ...

Elephant seal bulls begin arriving around Thanksgiving for the winter breeding season. They are at their largest physical bulk, after months of feeding along the North American continental shelf. They ...

Elephant seal class of 2025 is arriving on the beach. The young seals, not yet in the breeding population, take over the beach at this time of year. Adult females are out at sea, foraging, growing the ...

Look for massive bull elephant seals like this beachmaster on the beach in San Luis Obispo County. Credit: Christine Heinrichs photo Northern elephant seal bulls begin arriving at San Luis Obispo ...

POINT REYES, Calif. (KGO) -- In the North Bay, a major migration is happening in Marin County. Elephant seals are returning to Drake's Beach at the Point Reyes National Seashore for breeding season ...

Two young elephant seals show off their growing noses as they spar in the surf at the Piedras Blancas rookery north of San Simeon in San Luis Obispo County. Christine Heinrichs Every day, more young ...

POINT REYES, Calif. - Northern elephant seal pups are being born up and down the California coast over the last few weeks. It's the start of the breeding season for the seals who "haul-out" along ...

Wildlife is vanishing around the world, plummeting at rates unprecedented in human history. Then there are elephant seals. Once on the brink of extinction, elephant seals are expanding north into new ...

Elephant seals are being used as nature's artificial intelligence to monitor the health of the oceans -- especially the little-known "twilight zone," an ecosystem abundant with fish that could soon be ...

New research suggests these large marine mammals are extremely fussy and only eat their favorite foods. As one of the top predators roaming Antarctica, the sizeable southern elephant seal has its fair ...