The United States is home to 33 species of seals, from California sea lions to gray seals, and you can see them in more ...

Researchers don’t often put electronic tags on elephant seal pups. At more than $3,000 per satellite tag, losses are just too high to risk the expensive technology. But in one recent case, it paid off ...

Irate males guffaw loudly through their ginormous proboscises beside dozing female elephant seals who nurse their dark-hued offspring while absorbing solar energy. Meanwhile, scores of human visitors ...

The Friends of the Elephant Seal Visitor Center exhibit displays the routes three well-traveled seal athletes took and their performance stats. Kathy Curtis Friends of the Elephant Seal The world’s ...

An elephant seal named Phyllis at Ano Nuevo Natural Preserve within Ano Nuevo State Park near Pescadero, Calif., in May. UC Santa Cruz researchers say Phyllis has set a record by swimming farther west ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife’s Marine Mammal Program captured and relocated an elephant seal pup that was resting at Neskowin’s South Beach on March 19. Experts ...

One of my favorite family traditions is driving out to Point Reyes National Seashore to see migratory elephant seals early every February at the peak of pupping season, when the population tops out ...

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Monarch as a weanling with her new tags in April 2023. Photo taken under NMFS permit 22187-04. Credit: Molly Murphy photo Researchers don’t often put electronic tags on elephant seal pups. At more ...

Monarch as a weanling with her new tags in April 2023. Photo taken under NMFS permit 22187-04. Molly Murphy Researchers don’t often put electronic tags on elephant seal pups. At more than $3,000 per ...