Fossil teeth and deep-sea drilling are guiding scientists through the evolution of the largest living land animals. As Africa became increasingly arid over the past 10 million years, elephant teeth ...

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Expanding sea ice during cold glacial periods forced the seals northward ... including necklaces made from elephant seal teeth which have been found in early Māori archaeological sites. Archaeological ...

Elephant experts are defending the animals’ reputation after it was reported that a pachyderm bit and broke a woman’s arm at a Bali animal park that has been visited by Kim Kardashian, Julia ...

"Southern elephant seals today tend to haul out in much warmer areas than the Ross Sea," Hall says. "We were able to use the presence of their molted skin and hair, as well as some bones and ...

A biologist at Scripps Institution of Oceanography found that elephant seals take multiple 10-minute naps underwater during their nearly 10-month foraging trips out to sea.