Caption Elephant seal milk, which can be seen on this female with a pup about 3 weeks old, is 55% fat. The females rely entirely on stored energy reserves during the four weeks they spend nursing ...

Beachgoers are being reminded to "share the shore" and give resting marine mammals space after a young elephant seal was found basking in the sun in Seaside.

Our seals have travelled from as far as the deep seas off Alaska to reach the bay. Northern elephant seals are the largest true seal in the Northern Hemisphere. When males reach puberty at about 7 ...

Many northern elephant seals haul out on beaches ... At Drakes Beach, the colony can surpass 600 by early February. Female elephant seals nurse their pups for a month, then wean their pups and ...

Local experts are cautioning beachgoers to “share the shore” after a young elephant seal was found lounging on the Seaside ...

A new study used northern elephant seals (Mirounga angustirostris) — marine predators that forage in the twilight zone — to help understand fish abundance deep down, both five decades into the ...