Southern elephant seals are the largest of all seals with males reaching 13 to 16 feet in length and 7,720 pounds in weight, according to the Department of Natural Resources and Environment Tasmania.

Bim died of heart failure in 1969. Despite their name, elephant seals aren’t related to elephants. However, like the largest land mammal, they are the giants of the ‘pinniped’, the ‘fin-fo ...

A subadult male elephant seal can be seen near sea lions in October 2024. Subadult elephant seals and sea lions frequently intermingle at rookeries along Península Valdés in Argentina. Close contact ...

On occasion, elephant seals breed among sea lions. Here, an adult male elephant seal and a female with her black-coated pup in the background, are surrounded by sea lions in October 2024. Dynamics of ...

and are home to large numbers of southern elephant seals and Sub-Antarctic and Antarctic fur seals. The Department of ...

The Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment has announced that the High Pathogenicity Avian Influenza (HPAI) ...

"It's a cacophony in a seal colony," explains Dr Caroline Casey, where hundreds of mums and pups call at once. Now, research led by California-based scientists has revealed that mother elephant ...

Allen, Sarah G. Lau, Matthew J. and Codde, Sarah A. 2024. An observation of potential altruism by a male northern elephant seal (Mirounga angustirostris). Marine Mammal Science, Vol. 40, Issue. 3, How ...

Researchers in Garopaba, Brazil, made what they called the “unprecedented” discovery of a baby elephant seal on Friday, October 11, Instituto Australis said. Footage recorded by researchers at ...

A stranded young male southern elephant seal named Rocky has found a temporary sanctuary on the lower South Coast of KwaZulu-Natal. Rocky, a southern elephant seal, was found stranded on the KZN ...