A recent study found that 47 percent of breeding female elephant seals on South Georgia, home to the world’s largest ...

Male elephant seals might remember the calls of their adversaries from previous breeding seasons, a new study suggests.

The world’s attention may be turning its focus to human athletes at the Olympics in Paris, but elephant seal observers are celebrating our own local seal athletes. A new exhibit at the Friends of the ...

In 2023, bird flu reached a remote island in the southern Atlantic Ocean. Now, South Georgia—home to the world’s largest southern elephant seal population—has been transformed. Drone images of the ...

The relationship between oceanographic conditions and predator population dynamics is a complex but critical area of study in understanding marine ecosystems. In particular, the northern elephant seal ...

As autumn turns to winter on the Central Coast, one of the markers of the changing season is the return of the northern elephant seals to beaches south of Big Sur and just north of Monterey Bay at Año ...

Most of us can recall playing in the ocean as a child, but it’s doubtful any of us seized the moment like this baby elephant. This elephant was scheduled to participate in a wedding, but clearly ...

The Southern Ocean is the engine room of global heat and carbon uptake – and it’s changing faster and more dramatically than ...

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 ...