The sightings were the first reports of the animals in Santa Cruz since an outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza ...

Authorities in California are searching for two people who were seen throwing rocks at an elephant seal on a National Park Service property Point Reyes National Seashore, located north of San ...

Well-trained students and scientists are the boots on the beach collecting the samples and observations needed to help a ...

Experts are closely monitoring the marine animals, flagging mortalities and advising beach visitors to take extra precautions ...

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 ...

An avian flu outbreak, which killed several elephant seals at California’s Año Nuevo State Park last month, has spread to two ...

Researchers are on high alert monitoring the local Piedras Blancas elephant seal rookery - though there is good news.

Elephant seals are huge, gray and blubbery. They have a big snout and a very distinctive voice. (SOUNDBITE OF ELEPHANT SEAL GRUNTING) SUMMERS: But despite the obvious differences, elephant seals ...

Gingerbread is sweet, warm, and a little bit spicy, which is why it's the perfect name for the first Northern Elephant Seal pup to be born at Piedras Blancas Rookery in Central California this winter.