An unusual medieval gold seal with a gemstone engraved with an elephant carrying a castle on its back has been added to a ...

Marine biologists at the University of California Santa Cruz have tagged thousands of northern elephant seals with smart ...

Elephant seals are now key players in ocean research. Fitted with smart sensors, these massive marine mammals are helping ...

A new study suggests that elephant seals can serve as “smart sensors” for monitoring fish populations in the ocean’s twilight ...

This week's Short Wave news roundup covers harvesting drinking water from fog, what elephant seals reveal about fish populations in the deep ocean, and why there's always room for dessert.

Over the past 60 years, marine biologists at UC Santa Cruz have monitored the behavior of northern elephant seals that ...

Elephant seals have seen a population rebound and are returning in droves to Drake's Beach in California. The 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 ...

A man at a beach near Gordon's Bay in the Western Cape shared a video of a large elephant seal making its way to shore. Some ...

Scientists have a different idea of the twilight zone. To them, it’s an area of the open ocean where most fish live – depths of 650 to 3,200 feet.

Northern elephant seals serve as effective "smart sensors" for monitoring fish populations in the ocean's twilight zone, a region between 200 and 1,000 meters deep.