It reveals how these large marine mammals have adapted – and sometimes failed to adapt – to such pressures since the height of the last Ice Age thousands of years ago. Today, the largest southern ...

A new study shows that melting sea ice due to increasing temperatures is leading to a "concerning" and severe decline in ...

By Barinia Montoya Year after year, a colony of elephant seals arrives in Jackson Bay, on the islands of Tierra del Fuego at the southern tip of Chile, to molt and breed. However, in 2023, an ...

Year after year, a colony of elephant seals arrives in Jackson Bay, on the islands of Tierra del Fuego at the southern tip of Chile, to molt and breed. However, in 2023, an outbreak of avian flu ...

VASHON ISLAND, Wash. — A rare sighting on Vashon Island has beachgoers talking after a massive elephant seal was spotted this week molting along one of the island’s popular beaches. Tramp ...

"A coordinated rescue plan is currently in action in Gordon's Bay to help the sub-adult male elephant seal safely return to his ocean home," the Cape of Good Hope SPCA said on social media. Photos ...

An elephant seal has been spotted in a residential area in Gordon’s Bay. The SPCA said it is working on a plan to safely remove the seal. Residents have been urged to keep their distance. Gordon’s Bay ...

Federal wildlife authorities are searching for a person of interest in the stabbing of a baby elephant seal on an Oregon beach, leaving it injured with multiple wounds. The 225-pound pup was ...

Rawlence said a unique lineage of Australasian elephant seals were likely pushed to prehistoric New Zealand by expanding sea ice during the ice age. However, this range expansion would not become ...

Expanding sea ice during cold glacial periods forced the seals northward, only for them to recolonise the Southern Ocean as sea ice retreated during warm interglacials. This history was particularly ...

University of Otago. "Aotearoa once home to elephant seals." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 20 March 2025. <www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2025 / 03 / 250320231653.htm>.

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 ...