Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Close-up portrait of a Southern Elephant Seal (Mirounga leonina) showing detailed textures of its face and skin during molting ...

Aliah Meza holds a board to keep Rabble’s head away from veterinarian Heather Harris. Skin has molted off Rabble’s head, but the old skin is still on his chest. Laurie Miller The Marine Mammal Center ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hefty bulls take over the beach during the summer months, to molt their skin. The younger bulls stage battles, but mostly bulls ...

The spring months bring more seals to Piedras Blancas than even the winter breeding season. All 5,000 or so adult females return, along with the same number or so non-breeding juveniles. It’s the ...

What can an elephant seal – a 4,000 pound, bellowing monstrosity that looks like a melted Yankee Candle – teach us about the world? Plenty, it turns out. “The animals are amazing. I mean, everything ...

This season’s Piedras Blancas elephant seal pups are now independent seals. Their mothers weaned them, abruptly, and left on their short spring migration. It’s on the pups now to develop the swimming ...

Avian flu, also known as H5N1, spread through marine mammal colonies in Argentinian Patagonia in August 2023, nearly doubling the death rate among southern elephant seals in some areas. In a recent ...

On a beach in San Francisco, a crowd gathers to watch an elephant seal as it writhes in the sand. Concern increases as onlookers wonder what’s wrong with the animal. It seems to be in pain, but is not ...

“The animals are amazing. I mean, everything they do is extreme,” said Daniel Costa, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at UC Santa Cruz. “They’re the deepest-diving pinniped and they dive ...