More information: Brenda L. Hall et al, Widespread southern elephant seal occupation of the Victoria land coast implies a warmer-than-present Ross Sea in the mid-to-late Holocene, Quaternary ...

A southern elephant seal known for his annual return trips to Cape Town has once again made the Mother City’s beaches his summer holiday home. But he is not the only Antarctic wanderer soaking ...

Hundreds of elephant seals dead as bird flu hits Antarctic, raising fears penguins could be next “If the virus reaches those populations, they are in threat of extinction," one expert told New ...

Populations of Antarctic seals have halved over 50 years amid a warming climate and shrinking sea ice, a new study has shown.

Elephant seals like this one swim more than 1,500 miles south from Kerguelen to Antarctica, ... the seal made a standard Antarctic journey, but then went in an unusual direction.

Sammy the elephant seal weighs thousands of kilograms and normally lives near Antarctica. But Portland locals have embraced him, while avoiding some of the trouble Tasmanians have experienced with ...

SINCE 1950, efforts have been made by biologists of the Australian National Antarctic Research Expedition at Heard Island to collect material for the study of the embryology of the elephant seal ...

Sammy the elephant seal weighs thousands of kilograms and normally lives near Antarctica, but Portland locals have embraced him while avoiding some of the trouble others have found themselves in.

According to new research led by UNSW Sydney, male southern elephant seals have their own favourite foods, and they like to stick with them. In other words, they're very fussy eaters.

A huge elephant seal has fast become a much-loved member of a coastal Victorian community. The seal is making a habit of taking a summer break from its sub-Antarctic home in the town of Portland ...

Staff members of the Marine Unit with Shark Spotters facilitate the transportation of an elephant seal that found its way into a residential area in Gordon's Bay, near Cape Town, South Africa ...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (WSVN) — An elephant seal wandered its way into the suburbs, ... They are usually only found in sub-Antarctic regions, making this a very rare sight in South Africa.