Young tegus are emerald green with black markings and a tail that has yellow and black bands. Over several months and after ...

"When you see them emerge as a group at dusk, it feels like a river, a flow," said Aya Goldshtein of the University of Konstanz, Germany. She began a study on this phenomenon while at Tel Aviv ...

Sound designer David Farmer of Novato, who recorded elephant seal vocalizations at The Marine Mammal Center in Sausalito, Calif. that were used in the Lord of the Rings movies. (courtesy of David ...

“It is getting to the point where elephant seal pups and sea lion pups are stranding now in high numbers,” Warner said. To bring the animals back to health, the Marine Mammal Care Center works ...

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Growth models can explain differences in growth patterns and time of onset of puberty in elephant seal populations at Macquarie Island and Falklands Islands. Elephant seals at Macquarie Island are ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Local experts are cautioning beachgoers to “share the shore” after a young elephant seal was found lounging on the Seaside beach Tuesday morning. According to the ...

"It's heavily colonised by penguins and elephant seals and all kinds of sea birds," said Prof Coffin, who studies the undersea geography of the islands. He recalls observing from afar what he ...

The uninhabited Heard and McDonald Islands — which are among the most remote and untouched places on Earth — have been inexplicably hit with 10% tariffs from the Trump administration Becca ...

Economic activity there essentially ended in 1877, when the trade in elephant seal oil was ended and the human population of sealers left the remote islands, which are located en route from ...

According to the World Wildlife Fund, the islands are a major breeding population of fur and elephant seals, penguins, albatrosses, and petrels. Several species on the islands are not found ...