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

The Friends of the Elephant Seal Visitor Center exhibit displays the routes three well-traveled seal athletes took and their performance stats. Kathy Curtis Friends of the Elephant Seal The world’s ...

The United States is home to 33 species of seals, from California sea lions to gray seals, and you can see them in more ...

Scientists recorded a 47 percent drop in breeding females in South Georgia’s three largest elephant seal colonies after bird ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife’s Marine Mammal Program captured and relocated an elephant seal pup that was resting at Neskowin’s South Beach on March 19. Experts ...

Monarch as a weanling with her new tags in April 2023. Photo taken under NMFS permit 22187-04. Credit: Molly Murphy photo Researchers don’t often put electronic tags on elephant seal pups. At more ...

An elephant seal named Phyllis at Ano Nuevo Natural Preserve within Ano Nuevo State Park near Pescadero, Calif., in May. UC Santa Cruz researchers say Phyllis has set a record by swimming farther west ...

For the first time, scientists have recorded brain activity in a free-ranging, wild marine mammal, revealing the sleep habits of elephant seals during the months they spend at sea. The new findings, ...

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A San Luis Obispo County nonprofit organization is getting attention for its efforts to protect elephant seals. A recent article in Smithsonian magazine praised Friends of the Elephant Seal for its ...

Researchers don’t often put electronic tags on elephant seal pups. At more than $3,000 per satellite tag, losses are just too high to risk the expensive technology. But in one recent case, it paid off ...

Monarch as a weanling with her new tags in April 2023. Photo taken under NMFS permit 22187-04. Molly Murphy Researchers don’t often put electronic tags on elephant seal pups. At more than $3,000 per ...