Elephant seal birthing and mating season is underway along the Central Coast. Wildlife officials say beaches near San Simeon ...

It's elephant seal mating and birthing season and people from all over are coming to the Central Coast to watch these large ...

Elephant seal bulls are washing up at San Simeon Cove, Washburn beach and Moonstone Beach in Cambria. Unwary visitors may find that what appears to be driftwood is actually a live seal. They are ...

Northern elephant seals are protected by federal law, and disturbing them during fasting and breeding can cause stress, ...

It's birthing and mating season for elephant seals at Point Reyes. Beach closures are in effect to help protect nursing pups. Point Reyes officials recently celebrated the area's first pup birth this ...

One of my favorite family traditions is driving out to Point Reyes National Seashore to see migratory elephant seals early every February at the peak of pupping season, when the population tops out ...

The beaches of South Georgia, a remote splinter of ice and rock in the South Atlantic, should be a place of deafening, chaotic life. Normally, the shores host the planet’s largest gathering of ...

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 ...

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 ...