Researchers don’t often put electronic tags on elephant seal pups. At more than $3,000 per satellite tag, losses are just too high to risk the expensive technology. But in one recent case, it paid off ...

Monarch as a weanling with her new tags in April 2023. Photo taken under NMFS permit 22187-04. Credit: Molly Murphy photo Researchers don’t often put electronic tags on elephant seal pups. At more ...

The Friends of the Elephant Seal Visitor Center exhibit displays the routes three well-traveled seal athletes took and their performance stats. Kathy Curtis Friends of the Elephant Seal The world’s ...

What can an elephant seal – a 4,000 pound, bellowing monstrosity that looks like a melted Yankee Candle – teach us about the world? Plenty, it turns out. “The animals are amazing. I mean, everything ...

It's birthing and mating season for elephant seals at Point Reyes. Beach closures are in effect to help protect nursing pups. Point Reyes officials recently celebrated the area's first pup birth this ...

Drakes Beach in the Point Reyes National Seashore is temporarily closed to accommodate elephant seals that have set up camp for the breeding season. The annual ritual has brought at least 30 males to ...

Monarch as a weanling with her new tags in April 2023. Photo taken under NMFS permit 22187-04. Molly Murphy Researchers don’t often put electronic tags on elephant seal pups. At more than $3,000 per ...