They comprise the extant families Odobenidae (whose only living member is the walrus), Otariidae (the eared seals: sea lions and fur ... southern elephant seal, which is also the largest carnivoran.[ ...

These days, it’s rare to spot a southern elephant seal in New Zealand. These hefty mammals—the males can reach five metres ...

It wasn’t something chesty like a tiger or a lion, which wasn’t something ... he discovered that the young northern elephant seals that arrive in large numbers every spring were making the ...

Federal wildlife authorities are searching for a person of interest in the stabbing of a baby elephant seal on an Oregon beach, leaving it injured with multiple wounds. The 225-pound pup was ...

including thousands of sea lion deaths in Peru, Chile, Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil. Beltran emphasized that situations like this catastrophic die-off of the southern elephant seal population ...

is the larger of the two species of elephant seal, and is the largest member of the clade Pinnipedia, a group of carnivorous marine mammals that includes seals, sea lions and walrus. Southern ...