It may take 100 years for the southern elephant seal colony of Península Valdés in Argentine Patagonia to look like it did in ...

A study published in Marine Mammal Science examines the profound implications of a recent outbreak of the H5N1 avian influenza virus on the southern elephant seal (Mirounga leonina) colony at ...

Once spread across the Southern Hemisphere, southern elephant seals are now facing steep declines ... Success stories like the comeback of sei whales off Argentina's coast after commercial hunting ...

The islands are home to penguins and seals ... Kingdom and Argentina — including a military conflict in the 1980s — the Falkland Islands is home to roughly 3,600 people in the southern ...

Protection alliances form particularly among female seals ... Hauling Out seals. Photo by Pascal Mauerhofer, via Unsplash Among the most dramatic examples of seal alliances are the male coalitions ...

Image via Jay Ruzesky, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons They are the largest of male elephant ... kg (8,150 pounds). Seals predominantly inhabit polar and subpolar regions, specifically the North Atlantic, ...

Argentina has a northern border with Brazil ... The coastline is famous for its marine mammals, notably fur seals, sea lions and elephant seals. This is also a breeding area for the Southern Right ...