Protecting remaining strongholds and minimising human impacts on food sources will be crucial to avoiding further population decline of this remarkable creature.

San Quentin inmates reunite with the service dogs they raised The northern elephant seal, the largest of the "true" seals in the Northern Hemisphere, has a remarkable history. Once nearly extinct ...

It may take 100 years for the southern elephant seal colony of Península Valdés in Argentine Patagonia to look like it did in ...

MORE: Sea otters, once hunted to near extinction, are preventing coastal erosion as their populations grow, study finds During the migratory route, the elephant seals enter the "twilight zone ...

Northern elephant seals are also a conservation success story. Once thought to be extinct because of commercial sealing in the 1800s, a small population survived in Mexico and began to increase in ...

A new study used northern elephant seals (Mirounga angustirostris) — marine predators that forage in the twilight zone — to help understand fish abundance deep down, both five decades into the ...

Southern elephant seals (Mirounga leonina ... The colonies that once thrived on the Victoria Land Coast in Antarctica are now extinct. Meanwhile, Macquarie Island is home to a significant breeding ...

This schematic shows living (solid circles) and extinct (opaque circles) southern elephant seal populations and the extent of sea ice around Antarctica (opaque blue-grey) at the height of the last ...

Southern elephant seals (Mirounga leonina ... The colonies that once thrived on the Victoria Land Coast in Antarctica are now extinct. Meanwhile, Macquarie Island is home to a significant breeding ...