Hundreds of elephant seals lounged in the sunshine on a San Simeon beach on Thursday, occasionally rousing from their naps to toss sand on themselves or bark at passing tourists. Those who looked ...

Viruses love to jump between animal species. In 2023, a highly pathogenic bird flu leapt to seals in South America, killing ...

The iceberg cometh. The world’s largest iceberg is on a collision course with a British island off Antarctica, potentially ...

Docent Michael O’Bannon, after observing the seals for years, speculates that bulls retreat when their proboscis gets injured. The soft tissue of the elephant trunk-like proboscis is vulnerable.

A Pulitzer Prize-winning weekly covering West Marin, including the towns of Point Reyes Station, Inverness, Bolinas, Stinson ...

(KGO) -- In the North Bay, a major migration is happening in Marin County. Elephant seals are returning to Drake's Beach at the Point Reyes National Seashore for breeding season and many folks are ...

Hundreds of elephant seals lounged in the sunshine on a San Simeon beach on Thursday, occasionally rousing from their naps to toss sand on themselves or bark at passing tourists. Those who looked ...

World's largest iceberg, A23a, is drifting towards the British island of South Georgia. A23a has been monitored for 30 years, ...

North America's elephant seals were in imminent danger of extinction due to hunting in the 18th and ... [+] 19th centuries, but populations have since recovered due to introduced federal protections.

Environmentalists fear for the island's rare king penguins and millions of elephant and fur seals if iceberg collides.

Despite this, the iceberg still poses a threat to the island’s delicate ecosystem. In 2004, a large iceberg called A38 hit ...

Some call them losers — but any seal that lives long enough to be a contender is a success, one columnist writes.