Seals range in size from the 1 m (3 ft 3 in) and 45 kg (99 lb) Baikal seal to the 5 m (16 ft) and 3,200 kg (7,100 lb) southern elephant seal, which is also the largest carnivoran.[b] Several ...

It’s easy to confuse two animals. Believe me, I do it much too often. I’m talking leopard vs. cheetah or emu vs. ostrich. But it doesn’t have to be as difficult to differentiate between two similar ...

Docent Michael O’Bannon, after observing the seals for years, speculates that bulls retreat when their proboscis gets injured. The soft tissue of the elephant trunk-like proboscis is vulnerable.

In the first study on elephant seals, published today in Nature Communications, researchers from UC Davis and the National Institute of Agricultural Technology (INTA) in Argentina tracked the seal ...

Educational worksheet. elephant seal swimming stock illustrations Count all Antarctic animals and circle the correct answers. Counting game with cute Antarctic animals. Educational worksheet. Cartoon ...

A team of researchers are using drones and satellite images from space to count southern elephant seals on the sub-Antarctic Island of South Georgia. Using remotely piloted aerial systems (RPAS ...