Much of the eastern United States is currently undergoing a massive polar vortex, with another one expected to follow. Meanwhile, California basks in the sunshine. These conditions set the stage for ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An aerial image of the elephant seal colony at St. Andrew's Bay, one of the largest populations of southern elephant seals on ...

Biologist Valeria Falabella’s voice breaks as she describes the devastating scene. It was October 2023 when she and her team climbed down onto Punta Delgada Beach, in the Valdés Peninsula, a remote ...

Massive elephant seals weighing several tons collide in intense battles for dominance. Using their full body weight, they ...

What can an elephant seal — a 4,000-pound bellowing monstrosity that looks like a melted Yankee Candle — teach us about the world? Plenty, it turns out. “The animals are amazing. I mean, everything ...

The southern elephant seal’s conservation status in South Africa has improved from near threatened to least concern, with experts citing four decades without major threats to its breeding colonies on ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Southern Elephant Seal (Mirounga leonina) fights with a rival for control of a large harem of females during the breeding season ...

At the end of 2023, an outbreak of avian flu devastated a colony of southern elephant seals in Argentina’s Valdés Peninsula. It may take a century for the population to return to the 18,000 breeding ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. H5N1 bird flu is devastating marine mammals in the Southern Hemisphere, with some elephant seal colonies suffering ...