Elephant seals are biological absurdities. They can dive deeper than nuclear submarines, collapse their lungs to survive ...

Elephant seals don't forget their enemies. We learn about the great beasts' big beefs and why they matter. [Copyright 2024 NPR] ...

Ferocious human-like monsters that battle hobbits and heroes in the blockbuster film “The Fellowship of the Ring” owe their voices to a serendipitous drive into the fog-swept Marin Headlands and a Bay ...

After nearly going extinct, elephant seals are a conservation success story. Elephant seals are being used as nature's artificial intelligence to monitor the health of the oceans -- especially the ...

Biologist Valeria Falabella’s voice breaks as she describes the devastating scene. It was October 2023 when she and her team climbed down onto Punta Delgada Beach, in the Valdés Peninsula, a remote ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. H5N1 bird flu is devastating marine mammals in the Southern Hemisphere, with some elephant seal colonies suffering ...

A subadult male elephant seal can be seen near sea lions. Subadult elephant seals and sea lions frequently intermingle at rookeries along Península Valdés in Argentina. Close contact between pinniped ...

An outbreak of avian flu in 2023 hammered a colony of southern elephant seals in Chile’s Tierra del Fuego region, leading to a 50% decline in its population. But over the 2024-2025 breeding season, ...

At the end of 2023, an outbreak of avian flu devastated a colony of southern elephant seals in Argentina’s Valdés Peninsula. It may take a century for the population to return to the 18,000 breeding ...