The southern Antarctic Elephant Seal is the largest seal species on earth, and in the polar spring they begin to gather on ...

Mass elephant seal deaths have been reported in the Antarctic region after a high level of mortality has been detected among elephant seal pups at three sites around South Georgia. Animals have ...

Marine biologists at the University of California Santa Cruz have tagged thousands of northern elephant seals with smart ...

That's the way one scientist puts it — referring to how infected wild birds survive long enough to spread it to birds and ...

Antarctica, despite its harsh conditions, is home to unique species like leopard seals, emperor penguins, and icefish. These animals exhibit remarkable adaptations for survival, from the emperor ...

Elephant seals viewed from a drone on South Georgia (Pic BAS) A team of researchers are using drones and satellite images from space to count southern elephant seals on the sub-Antarctic Island of ...

The world's largest iceberg is on the move, and could be set to reach a remote British island. Known as the 'queen of icebergs', it's spinning northwards from Antarctica towards South Georgia, a ...

Roxanne Beltran, assistant professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at UC Santa Cruz, is among 50 people from around the ...

The occasional penguin will waddle through the lolling elephant seals to check you out, with both noisy colonies intriguing to watch. Equally as fascinating is the Antarctic ice. While the Arctic ...