Some call them losers — but any seal that lives long enough to be a contender is a success, one columnist writes.

The shocking moment two elephant seals are caught fighting on a beach has been caught on camera. Photographer Richard Sidey, from Wanaka, New Zealand, took this footage on the shores of South ...

We could all use some good news to close out the year, so this week we have stories about tuna conservation wins, rats ...

had to be when cinematographer Matt Aeberhard and I filmed with the huge male southern elephant seals, or beachmasters, and their fight for the right to breed on the shores of Peninsular Valdes.

Northern elephant seals sleep while drifting hundreds of metres below the sea surface - at depths where their predators do not usually lurk. US researchers tracked the animals, recording their ...

North America's elephant seals were in imminent danger of extinction due to hunting in the 18th and ... [+] 19th centuries, but populations have since recovered due to introduced federal protections.