Last year avian influenza brought death to the picturesque island of South Georgia off Antarctica. This season scientists hope things will be different ...

Hundreds of elephant seals lounged in the sunshine on a San Simeon beach on Thursday, occasionally rousing from their naps to ...

Walking on the beach is off-limits, but the Elephant Seal Vista Point off of Highway 1 offers boardwalks and benches with ...

Once driven to the brink of extinction, the elephant seals of the California coast now have a crucial haven in the form of ...

Having long dreamed of Antarctic expeditions, writer and adventurer Blair Braverman finally makes it to the White Continent—and gives herself up to a different way of traveling.

The Antarctic fur seal, Arctocephalus gazella, would be hunted to the verge of extinction. The southern elephant seal too would be brought low, killed in great numbers for the oil rendered from ...

Antarctica is the coldest ... Scientists also study the wildlife like penguins, elephant seals and seaweed.

Northern elephant seals sleep while drifting hundreds of metres below the sea surface - at depths where their predators do not usually lurk. US researchers tracked the animals, recording their ...