Every winter, about 10,000 elephant seals make their way to California’s Año Nuevo State Park, to fight, mate and give birth.

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 ...

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 soon be ...

Each winter, thousands of massive northern elephant seals gather at California’s Año Nuevo State Park for their breeding ...

The Bay Area is home to one of the world’s largest mainland-breeding colonies for the Northern Elephant Seal, and breeding ...

It’s one of Northern California’s most famous wildlife shows. Every year, up to 10,000 elephant seals — the giant, blubbery pinnipeds that can weigh 5,000 pounds, grow as long as a Toyota Corolla and ...

Southern elephant seals (Mirounga leonina) are an iconic species of the Southern Ocean. But with rapid environmental changes in their ocean home, the seals' population range has been shifting. Once ...

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 ...

Northern elephant seals gather in huge numbers at a few well-known Central Coast rookeries, including Año Nuevo, Point Reyes ...

One of my favorite family traditions is driving out to Point Reyes National Seashore to see migratory elephant seals early every February at the peak of pupping season, when the population tops out ...