The beaches of South Georgia, a remote splinter of ice and rock in the South Atlantic, should be a place of deafening, ...

The world's largest species of seal has been devastated by bird flu, which has wiped out half of all breeding females at a ...

After the H5N1 virus hit the remote island of South Georgia in 2023, more than 50,000 breeding females may have disappeared.

A new international study has revealed the genetic impact of hunting in northern elephant seals. The research shows that this species narrowly escaped extinction by hunting, resulting in lasting ...

Friends of the Elephant Seal is even holding a contest to guess when the first bull will arrive for the breeding season.

Sophia is your community news reporter covering the North Coast of San Luis Obispo County, including Los Osos, Morro Bay, Cayucos, Cambria and San Simeon. Both elephant seal guides and visitors are ...

Elephant seals are being used as nature's artificial intelligence to monitor the health of the oceans -- especially the little-known "twilight zone," an ecosystem abundant with fish that could soon be ...