Today, the largest southern elephant seal populations are found on subantarctic islands, including South Georgia, Macquarie Island and the Falkland Islands. These colonies act as global strongholds ...

A mummified southern elephant seal found on the Victoria Land Coast in Antarctica. Brenda Hall, CC BY-SA. Elephant seals likely expanded from ice-free refuges in temperate regions such as Tasmania ...

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 ...

New research suggests these large marine mammals are extremely fussy and only eat their favorite foods. As one of the top predators roaming Antarctica, the sizeable southern elephant seal has its ...

As one of the top predators roaming Antarctica, the sizeable southern elephant seal has its fair selection of the menu. But it turns out they don't just want to eat anything and everything.

The northern elephant seal is slightly smaller than its southern relative. In both species, male elephant seals can weigh up to 10 times more than females. Appearance: ...

Camps Bay beach has a rare guest – a female southern elephant seal who has hauled out onto the sand to moult. In this process, which takes about a month, the seal sheds and replaces its outer ...

Southern Elephant Seal Reports and Proceedings. U.S. National Science Foundation. image: There are two types of elephant seals: northern elephant seals and southern elephant seals. Southern ...

Over 17,000 southern elephant seal pups — accounting for 95% of the pups born last year — have died from a highly virulent strain of H5N1, known as bird flu, in a mass death event on the ...

Two southern elephant seals (Mirounga leonina (Linn.)), approximately 15 months old, were killed by members of the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions at Macquarie Island (54° S ...

As one of the top predators roaming Antarctica, the sizeable southern elephant seal has its fair selection of the menu. But it turns out they don’t just want to eat anything and everything ...