Elephant seals, in particular ... This article was originally published on mentalfloss.com as Why Deep-Diving Seals Don’t Drown.

More than their appearance is remarkable about elephant seals. They can dive as deep as a mile, where the pressure is crushing, and stay underwater for as long as two hours. Even if their muscles ...

Elephant seals are being used as nature's artificial ... specimens for studying the ocean because they are far-ranging, deep-diving and reliably return to the colony, Beltran said.

Despite the extreme conditions, these whales manage to hunt two kilometres deep, surviving on a single breath for near to an hour, many times each day. Marine mammals as a group are accomplished ...

Male elephant seals can survive without eating for months at a time when defending their territory, by using energy stored in their thick blubber and They are deep divers, recorded diving at over ...

Researchers have developed increasingly sophisticated tags for tracking the movements and diving behavior of migrating elephant seals. Tags are attached harmlessly onto the animals' fur and ...

Our seals have travelled from as far as the deep seas off Alaska to reach the bay. Northern elephant seals are the largest true seal in the Northern Hemisphere. When males reach puberty at about 7 ...