Southern elephant seals (Mirounga leonina) are an iconic species of the Southern Ocean. But with rapid environmental changes in their ocean home, the seals’ population range has been shifting.

By Barinia Montoya Year after year, a colony of elephant seals arrives in Jackson Bay, on the islands of Tierra del Fuego at the southern tip of Chile, to molt and breed. However, in 2023, an ...

A new study of Antarctic seals shows that environmental conditions are leading to a severe decline in their populations in the South Orkney Islands. New results are published today (Wednesday 18 ...

Scientists who identified the fossil realized quickly they were dealing with a Columbian mammoth and not a tusk from the more common mastodon.

A large elephant seal took a wrong turn and was seen lumbering along a street in South Africa on Tuesday.

Young northern elephant seals can be seen in and around the Bay Area. The animals can be easily observed in their natural environment in three areas.

(KRON) — Authorities are investigating the gruesome attack on an elephant seal pup at an Oregon beach, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Fisheries announced Monday. A per… ...

CANTON, Mississippi — Fossil hunter Eddie Templeton was out exploring in Mississippi when he came across a remarkable find in a steep embankment. It appeared to be part of an ice-age elephant tusk.

A large elephant seal is found lumbering along a South African street Police and a local security company attempted to contain the seal by parking patrol cars around him.

CANTON, Mississippi — Fossil hunter Eddie Templeton was out exploring in Mississippi when he came across a remarkable find in a steep embankment. It appeared to be part of an ice-age elephant tusk.