On occasion, elephant seals breed among sea lions. Here, an adult male elephant seal and a female with her black-coated pup in the background, are surrounded by sea lions in October 2024.

In October, Friends of the Elephant Seal docents saw a seal with an entanglement around his neck on the beach at Piedras Blancas. He was at the far south end, difficult to observe — but that ...

Durban — A young male elephant seal taken into the care of South African Association for Marine Biological Research (Saambr) experts has slowly gained confidence and is eating more than six ...

In 2023, a highly pathogenic bird flu leapt to seals in South America, killing some 17,000 elephant seal pups (about 97 percent of the vulnerable animals) and an unknown number of adults in a majo ...

"It's a cacophony in a seal colony," explains Dr Caroline Casey, where hundreds of mums and pups call at once. Now, research led by California-based scientists has revealed that mother elephant ...

The elephant is carved on to a gemstone, which experts believe is probably a carnelian A medieval gold seal which shows an elephant carrying a castle on its back has become only the third of its ...

An epidemic of avian flu in Patagonia appears to be on the decline after decimating southern elephant seal populations for the last year and half, with researchers finding no new cases in recent ...

TUESDAY, Nov. 12, 2024 (HealthDay News) -- The H5N1 strain of avian flu is now passing easily among South America's elephant seals and drastically cutting herd populations, a new report finds.

The H5N1 strain of avian flu is now passing easily among South America's elephant seals and drastically cutting herd populations, a new report finds. "It is likely that more than half of the ...