Ano Nuevo State Park in San Mateo County will once again allow the public access to viewing elephant seals on Saturday after about six weeks of restricting access amid an outbreak of avian flu that ...

At its onset, no one knew how the bird flu would progress in the northern elephant seals at Año Nuevo, but this week, ...

Much of the eastern United States is currently undergoing a massive polar vortex, with another one expected to follow. Meanwhile, California basks in the sunshine. These conditions set the stage for ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hefty bulls take over the beach during the summer months, to molt their skin. The younger bulls stage battles, but mostly bulls ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. H5N1 bird flu is devastating marine mammals in the Southern Hemisphere, with some elephant seal colonies suffering ...

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 ...

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 local pups, unaware of the spread of the highly pathogenic virus among their northern California cousins, are learning to ...

“The animals are amazing. I mean, everything they do is extreme,” said Daniel Costa, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at UC Santa Cruz. “They’re the deepest-diving pinniped and they dive ...