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

The Bay Area is home to one of the world’s largest mainland-breeding colonies for the Northern Elephant Seal, and breeding ...

It's elephant seal mating and birthing season and people from all over are coming to the Central Coast to watch these large ...

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 ...

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

Northern elephant seals gather in huge numbers at a few well-known Central Coast rookeries, including Año Nuevo, Point Reyes ...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa — 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 rescue ...

Scientists surveying a wild bird colony in Argentina for highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) in October 2024. Credit: Marcela Uhart / UC Davis Viruses love to jump between animal species. In 2023 ...

Photo taken Jan. 21, 2019, provided by the Point Reyes National Seashore, a colony of elephant seals that took over a beach in Northern California during the government shutdown. John Dell'Osso/Point ...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa — 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 rescue ...