Elephant seal birthing and mating season is underway along the Central Coast. Wildlife officials say beaches near San Simeon ...

Elephant seals are huge, gray and blubbery. They have a big snout and a very distinctive voice. (SOUNDBITE OF ELEPHANT SEAL GRUNTING) SUMMERS: But despite the obvious differences, elephant seals ...

Mature bull elephant seals, foraging at sea for the past ten or twelve weeks, will start arriving a tPiedras Blancas any day. They are at their biggest and loudest now. They are ready for action. The ...

The air crackled with excitement all week. Docents messaged each other, watching over a pregnant seal squirming on the beach. Soon, soon, the first pup would arrive. ‘Tis the season! After a long day ...

Elephant seals spend most of their lives at sea, returning to shore just twice every year to molt and breed. The breeding season typically includes males weighing thousands of kilograms violently ...

What can an elephant seal — a 4,000-pound bellowing monstrosity that looks like a melted Yankee Candle — teach us about the world? Plenty, it turns out. “The animals are amazing. I mean, everything ...