The world’s attention may be turning its focus to human athletes at the Olympics in Paris, but elephant seal observers are celebrating our own local seal athletes. A new exhibit at the Friends of the ...

Northern elephant seals might be masters of multitasking in the animal kingdom because they’ve learned how to sleep and dive at the same time — all while avoiding predators. The elephant seals can ...

For the first time, scientists have recorded brain activity in a free-ranging, wild marine mammal, revealing the sleep habits of elephant seals during the months they spend at sea. The new findings, ...

It long seemed as if African elephants were the champions of the all-nighter. They can get by on about two hours of sleep. Other mammals need much more, like koalas (20 hours) or you (at least seven ...

Elephant seals drift downwards in a "sleep spiral" when deep diving in the ocean, a new study found. Sleeping while deep diving allows the seals to avoid predators, scientists believe. The scientists ...

As autumn turns to winter on the Central Coast, one of the markers of the changing season is the return of the northern elephant seals to beaches south of Big Sur and just north of Monterey Bay at Año ...

Elephant seals sleep about 10 hours a day on the beach, but during months-long foraging trips at sea they average just 2 hours of sleep per day. These 2-month-old northern elephant seals are sleeping ...

Northern elephant seals might be masters of multitasking in the animal kingdom because they've learned how to sleep and dive at the same time — all while avoiding predators. The elephant seals can ...

The Friends of the Elephant Seal Visitor Center exhibit displays the routes three well-traveled seal athletes took and their performance stats. Kathy Curtis Friends of the Elephant Seal The world’s ...