Northern elephant seals sleep while drifting hundreds of metres below the sea surface - at depths where their predators do not usually lurk. US researchers tracked the animals, recording their ...

In the 1700s, nearly all marine mammals, including sea otters, whales, dolphins, seals and sea lions were casualties of the ...

Piedras Blancas is four miles north of Hearst Castle along Highway 1. You could visit in one long day but better if you could make it ...

Our seals have travelled from as far as the deep seas off Alaska to reach the bay. Northern elephant seals are the largest true seal in the Northern Hemisphere. When males reach puberty at about 7 ...

UC Santa Cruz A northern elephant seal mother moves towards a speaker playing the sound of her pup's call "It was dramatic - we see the recognition after just a day or two," said Dr Casey.

Allen, Sarah G. Lau, Matthew J. and Codde, Sarah A. 2024. An observation of potential altruism by a male northern elephant seal (Mirounga angustirostris). Marine Mammal Science, Vol. 40, Issue. 3, How ...