Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Southern Elephant Seal (Mirounga leonina) fights with a rival for control of a large harem of females during the breeding season ...

The world's largest species of seal has been devastated by bird flu, which has wiped out half of all breeding females at a key wildlife haven near Antarctica, scientists warned Thursday. The remote ...

Valentina Saldaña is your comunity reporter covering the north coast of San Luis Obispo County, including Los Osos, Morro Bay, Cayucos, Cambria, and San Simeon. It's elephant seal mating and birthing ...

The elephant seal has been crushing fences, blocking traffic and bashing into parked cars, in what experts say is play-fighting behaviour ...

Like many adolescents with an outsized social media presence and a distinct lack of constructive peer support, Neil the seal is exhibiting performative behaviour that is causing serious concern to ...

Humans are not the only animals that can remember the voices of their old acquaintances. Elephant seals, too, can remember the calls of their rivals even a year later. Caroline Casey, research ...

As autumn turns to winter on the Central Coast, one of the markers of the changing season is the return of the northern elephant seals to beaches south of Big Sur and just north of Monterey Bay at Año ...