Elephant seals sleep about 10 hours a day on the beach, like these 2-month-old northern elephant seals resting at California's Año Nuevo State Park.

Northern elephant seals have adapted to sleep and dive at the same time all while avoiding predators. New research, based on the recorded brainwaves of the seals, revealed the marine mammals get ...

The seals fall into sleep during deep dives of up to 377 meters, which is around 1,235 feet, to avoid predators. They spiral downwards for about 10 minutes at a time during half-hour dives, and ...

An elephant seal forages for fish near an underwater observatory called in Berkley Canyon off the coast of British Columbia. This subsea lab named NEPTUNE is over 2,000 feet deep and a team of ...

Elephant seals sleep underwater in 10-minute naps while out at sea, gently spiralling down to depths of almost 400m – sometimes coming to rest on the seabed.

Testing out new headgear. Previous observations had shown that elephant seals in the open ocean surface for a couple of minutes at a time, between 10-to-30-minute dives.

Take that, plus what elephant seals accomplish at sea, and our modern sleep habits might start to look suspect. But duration can be deceiving, Bhagwandin told me.

Elephant seals are being used as nature's artificial intelligence to monitor the health of the oceans -- especially the little-known "twilight zone," an ecosystem abundant with fish that could ...

Between 2022 and 2023, at least eight male elephant seals, ages four to seven, were seen on camera and detected by hydrophones at Ocean Network Canada’s subsea cabled observatory NEPTUNE.

When eight young northern elephant seals suddenly began showing up at a deep-sea observatory, researchers were taken by surprise. Their repeated visits to the research site, otherwise a speck in ...

Genomic and fitness consequences of a near-extinction event in the northern elephant seal. Nature Ecology & Evolution , 2024; DOI: 10.1038/s41559-024-02533-2 Cite This Page : ...

Elephant Seals: Nature’s AI Helping Marine Biologists Study Oceans. The deep blue sea, with its mysterious and uncharted territories, has always been a focal point for marine biologists.