Southern elephant seals are the largest of all seals with males reaching 13 to 16 feet in length and 7,720 pounds in weight, according to the Department of Natural Resources and Environment Tasmania.

The accompanying footage shows a massive elephant seal – they can weigh 4,500 pounds – hauling ashore in Mulege , Mexico, in July 2022, disrupting a family beach outing.

southern elephant seal, which is also the largest carnivoran.[b] Several species exhibit sexual dimorphism. They have streamlined bodies and four limbs that are modified into flippers.

In the 1700s, nearly all marine mammals, including sea otters, whales, dolphins, seals and sea lions were casualties of the ...

A devastating H5N1 outbreak killed over 17,000 elephant seals, including 97% of pups, at Argentina’s Península Valdés. A study shows the virus spread among marine mammals and evolved distinct strains, ...

A year after an outbreak of H5N1 killed thousands of elephant seals, only about a third of the seals normally expected here ...

In the first study on elephant seals, published today in Nature Communications, researchers from UC Davis and the National ...

The H5N1 strain of avian flu is now passing easily among South America's elephant seals and drastically cutting herd ...