Adult elephant seal bulls may weigh over two tons, and be more than fifteen feet long. Bulls, with their floppy noses and ...

A male elephant seal, easily identified by his trunk-like nose, rises among a pack of females and pups. (Pat Pemberton/Courthouse News) The northern elephant seal was named for the large trunk-like ...

Scientists have learned that northern elephant seals — massive creatures found along the Pacific Coast of North America — cobble together a couple hours of sleep using underwater power naps.

An elephant seal forages for fish near an underwater observatory called in Berkley Canyon off the coast of British Columbia. This subsea lab named NEPTUNE is over 2,000 feet deep and a team of ...

The size of an elephant seal’s nose is a rough indicator of age. It starts growing when the seal is about 5 years old, and continues throughout its life.

Look for size differences, nose development, and scars from prey attacks. Two young elephant seals bump chests and show their teeth while on the beach at Piedras Blancas north of San Simeon, ...

In the first-ever sleep study on marine mammals in the wild, she found in the open ocean, elephant seals sleep less than two hours per day—while on land, they doze more than 10 hours a day.

It’s bull elephant seals’ turn to take over the beach at the Piedras Blancas rookery north of San Simeon. The big male elephant seals are here to rest and shed their skin in July and August ...

“The northern elephant seal, named for its long, elephant-like nose (called a proboscis), is the largest of the true seals (phocids) in the Northern Hemisphere,” Héloïse Frouin-Mouy, a study ...