Elephant seals are huge, gray and blubbery. They have a big snout and a very distinctive voice. (SOUNDBITE OF ELEPHANT SEAL GRUNTING) SUMMERS: But despite the obvious differences, elephant seals ...

Chunky Seal Week celebrates the full-bodied creatures that jiggle and waddle around shorelines in spring.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Elephant seal pups chubby from nursing snorted through snotty noses on Thursday at the Piedras Blancas rookery — but not because ...

Seals have a reputation for being the laid-back loungers of the animal kingdom, but there’s a lot more going on beneath that sleek surface. Seals, with dive times that rival submarines and milk fat ...

The sightings were the first reports of the animals in Santa Cruz since an outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza ...

Leopard seals rank among the largest seal species on Earth, with adult females reaching nearly 12 feet in length and weighing more than 1.3K pounds. They possess long canine teeth, powerful jaws that ...

A large elephant seal took a wrong turn and was seen lumbering along a street in a coastal town in South Africa early Tuesday, surprising residents and inspiring a rescue effort to get him back to sea ...

PESCADERO, Calif. (KRON) — More than two dozen elephant seals have tested positive for avian influenza since the outbreak at ...

When the H5N1 highly pathogenic avian influenza virus was discovered on a poultry farm in Asia in 1996, there was little ...