Massive sea creatures were spotted off the coast of California and viewers are calling the experience “dreamy.” Onlookers ...

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).

Lumbering to the waters edge, a bull Northern elephant seal (Mirounga angustirostris) suns himself along the California coast north of San Simeon on Highway One near the Piedras Blancas lighthouse at ...

Southern elephant ... Land Coast in Antarctica and closer to temperate zones, on mainland Australia and New Zealand. Our study focused on the Australasian lineage of southern elephant seals ...

Of the 407 animals the Marine Mammal Center responded to in 2024, 20% had been disturbed by people or dogs before being ...

A mummified southern elephant seal found on the Victoria Land Coast in Antarctica. Brenda Hall, CC BY-SA Elephant seals likely expanded from ice-free refuges in temperate regions such as Tasmania ...

Marine biologists at the University of California Santa Cruz have tagged thousands of northern elephant seals ... there are about 350,000 seals along the west coast of the U.S., Mexico and Canada.

This story aired in the March 6, 2025 episode of Crosscurrents. Right now, tens of thousands of elephant seals have returned to beaches along the California coast. And while they're on land, a lot is ...

Southern elephant seals are the 'canary in the coal mine' for the Southern Ocean, offering insight into how the ecosystem may react to future climate change and human impact, new research shows.

Sea creatures were spotted off the coast of California ... During the trip toward Catalina Island, an elephant seal and a group of “acrobatic” short-beaked common dolphins were also seen ...