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 ...

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 ...

New research of northern elephant seals has revealed their reproductive and foraging success has been affected by a population bottleneck which nearly caused their extinction and could make them ...

A male elephant seal, easily identified by his trunk-like nose, rises among a pack of females and pups. (Pat Pemberton/Courthouse News) The northern elephant seal was named for the large trunk-like ...

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 ...

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

A female elephant seal equipped with two data-logging tags. (Photo by Martín Ignacio Brogger) LOS ANGELES (CN) — Federal prosecutors filed criminal charges Tuesday against a California man who fatally ...