According to new research led by UNSW Sydney, male southern elephant seals have their own favourite foods, and they like to stick with them. In other words, they're very fussy eaters.

According to new research led by UNSW Sydney, male southern elephant seals have their own favorite foods, and they like to stick with them. In other words, they're very fussy eaters.

She thinks it’s time for us to start looking at male elephant seals in a new light. Dr. Costa had thought elephant seals generally lacked the brainpower of their sea lion cousins.

The northern elephant seal was named for the large trunk-like nose that is characteristic of the adult male. Around 1900, the curious-looking mammals were nearly extinct, having been hunted for their ...

Researchers track juvenile elephant seals for insights into mortality rates An outreach program to bring science and scientists into K-12 classrooms is part of a study investigating the differences ...

She thinks it’s time for us to start looking at male elephant seals in a new light. Costa had thought elephant seals generally lacked the brainpower of their sea lion cousins.

Male elephant seals are seen at the Piedras ... sea,” Burney LeBoeuf recounts an incident in the 1960s in which a local resident called the police to report a sickly-looking elephant seal. ...

For the study, the scientists inferred the eating habits of 31 male southern elephant seals from the Western Antarctic Peninsula by analysing a whisker sample from each seal that holds stable ...