Adult elephant seal bulls may weigh over two tons, and be more than fifteen feet long. Bulls, with their floppy noses and pink chest shields, are always crowdpleasers to the influx of summer visitors ...

A large elephant seal took a wrong turn and was seen lumbering along a street in a coastal town in South Africa early Tuesday, inspiring a rescue effort to get him back to sea.

An elephant seal that found its way into a residential area in Gordon’s Bay, near Cape Town, South Africa, Tuesday, May 27, 2025. (AP Photo) The seal eventually stopped next to a shopping mall.

Members of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) watch an elephant seal cornered on a street in Gordon's Bay, near Cape Town, South Africa, Tuesday, May 27, 2025.

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 ...

May 27 (UPI) --Wildlife rescuers in South Africa said a "coordinated rescue plan is currently in action" to return a wandering elephant seal to the ocean after the animal made a surprise ...

The animal is also being monitored by volunteers with the West Coast Marine Mammal Stranding Network. A young elephant seal rests on the Seaside beach during the molting process, Apr. 1, 2025.

A large elephant seal took a wrong turn and was seen lumbering along a street in a coastal town in South Africa, surprising residents and inspiring a rescue effort to get him back to sea.

A large elephant seal took a wrong turn and was seen lumbering along a street in a coastal town in South Africa, surprising residents and inspiring a rescue effort to get him back to sea.

A large elephant seal took a wrong turn and was seen lumbering along a street in a coastal town in South Africa, surprising residents and inspiring a rescue effort to get him back to sea.

A large elephant seal took a wrong turn and was seen lumbering along a street in a coastal town in South Africa, surprising residents and inspiring a rescue effort to get him back to sea.

A large elephant seal took a wrong turn and was seen lumbering along a street in a coastal town in South Africa, surprising residents and inspiring a rescue effort to get him back to sea.