BAINBRIDGE ISLAND, Wash. — A remarkable wildlife moment was caught on camera this week, showing an elephant seal swallowing a shark whole just off the coast of Bainbridge Island. The video, which ...

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 ...

These two male elephant seals took their battle into the ocean at the Piedras Blancas rookery. The one on the right began the fight with bleeding wounds on his chest shield. Christine Heinrichs ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An adult male elephant seal, marked J912, with a tracking device on his head and an antenna on his back, hauled out Feb. 5 at ...

“The animals are amazing. I mean, everything they do is extreme,” said Daniel Costa, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at UC Santa Cruz. “They’re the deepest-diving pinniped and they dive ...