Sophia is your community news reporter covering the North Coast of San Luis Obispo County, including Los Osos, Morro Bay, Cayucos, Cambria and San Simeon. Both elephant seal guides and visitors are ...

Winter is peak time for some of the West Coast’s biggest wildlife shows—elk herds in misty meadows, eagles stacked in ...

A baby southern elephant seal turning up in Tasmania was already a rare event. Then the little outsider grew up, returne ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hundreds of elephant seals lounged in the sunshine on a San Simeon beach on Thursday, occasionally rousing from their naps to toss ...

As El Niño and a marine heatwave threaten mass strandings along California beaches, the release of one rescued seal pup ...

The sounds of barking elephant seals are again in the air along the breeding grounds of Península Valdés, Argentina—but it's quieter. Almost exactly a year after a massive outbreak of H5N1 highly ...

A five-year-old elephant seal known as Neil has returned to land in Tasmania as part of his normal behavioural cycle. A video posted online shows the seal being coerced off a road by Tasmanian ...

H5 bird flu is expected to cause a massive die-off of Macquarie Island's elephant seals, many of which live near the base.