Unlike other fully aquatic marine mammals, elephant seals are available to researchers for a large part of the year when they come onto land along their migratory routes, Roxanne Beltran ...

Elephant seals likely expanded from ice-free refuges ... One of the most striking outcomes of our research is how quickly these large, long-lived animals can respond to environmental pressures.

When he contacted the center, the world’s largest marine mammal hospital, he discovered that the young northern elephant seals that arrive in large numbers every spring were making the racket ...

See All Key Ideas Rhythmic clicks, grunts and roars fill the Año Nuevo Island Reserve in California, home to a large breeding colony of northern elephant seals (Mirounga angustirostris).

When he contacted the center, the world’s largest marine mammal hospital, he discovered that the young northern elephant seals that arrive in large numbers every spring were making the racket ...

A young elephant seal was found resting in the ... where they shed their fur and outer layer of skin in large patches. Usually, seals can spend weeks on land in the same place as this process ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Local experts are cautioning beachgoers to “share the shore” after a young elephant seal was found lounging on the Seaside beach Tuesday morning. According to the ...

Young northern elephant seals can be seen in and around the Bay Area. The animals can be easily observed in their natural environment in three areas.

It reveals how these large marine mammals have adapted – and sometimes failed to adapt – to such pressures since the height of the last Ice Age thousands of years ago. A dynamic evolutionary history ...