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 ...

In an inspired, active cuteness, the locals saw fit to give this massive elephant seal a name, Gordon, or Gordy for short. You can learn more about this incredible story by watching the video below.

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.

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 ...

Staff members of the Marine Unit with Shark Spotters facilitate the transportation of an elephant seal that found its way into a residential area in Gordon's Bay, near Cape Town, South Africa ...

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.

"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 ...

The seals need to be out of the water, on the sand, to allow their new skin to emerge. (Visitors can handle pieces of skin from Friends of the Elephant Seal docents, identified by their blue ...

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 ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — An elephant seal pup was stabbed on a beach along the Oregon Coast. The seal pup survived but sustained multiple stab wounds, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ...

As fish-eating predators at the top of the marine food chain, elephant seals accumulate high concentrations of mercury in their bodies. A new study by scientists at UC Santa Cruz shows that elephant ...