Northern elephant seals may hold the key to unlocking the secrets of the open ocean’s twilight zone (~200 – 1,000 meters deep). According to a new study, these deep-diving creatures can help estimate ...
Marine biologists at the University of California Santa Cruz have tagged thousands of northern elephant seals with smart ...
Over the past 60 years, marine biologists at UC Santa Cruz have monitored the behavior of northern elephant seals that ...
Males typically arrive first in the late fall and early winter to declare territory from which they'll defend the pregnant females and their pups. Male elephant seals, known as bulls, can weigh up ...
Male elephant seals can survive without eating for months at a time when defending their territory, by using energy stored in their thick blubber and They are deep divers, recorded diving at over ...
When this elephant seal strayed on to their bit of the beach, these penguins weren't going to take it lying down. As a result, the young seal suffered a painful pinch on the behind as the gentoo ...
Baikal seal to the 5 m (16 ft) and 3,200 kg (7,100 lb) southern elephant seal, which is also the largest carnivoran.[b] Several species exhibit sexual dimorphism. They have streamlined bodies and ...
Should it disintegrate, the segments could float around South Georgia uncontrollably for years, putting the territory’s king penguins as well as elephant and fur seals in danger. In 2004 ...