Northern elephant seals may hold the key to unlocking the secrets of the open ocean’s twilight zone (~200 – 1,000 meters deep). According to a new study, these deep-diving creatures can help ...

One of my favorite family traditions is driving out to Point Reyes National Seashore to see migratory elephant seals early ...

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 ...

Elephant seals are now key players in ocean research. Fitted with smart sensors, these massive marine mammals are helping scientists unlock the ocean’s secrets.

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 ...

"The sensors can give us a whole ton of information about where the seals are going, how deep they're diving, how successful they're being, which environmental metrics are predicting their success," ...