Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Southern Elephant Seal (Mirounga leonina) fights with a rival for control of a large harem of females during the breeding season ...

Every year from late December through March, scientists from the Beltran and Costa labs at UC Santa Cruz set out for the beaches of Año Nuevo State Park. There, thousands of elephant ...

The outbreak marks the first cases of HPAI H5N1 in marine mammals in California and the first detection in northern elephant ...

PESCADERO, Calif. (AP) — Every winter about 10,000 elephant seals make their way to California's Año Nuevo State Park to fight, mate and give birth. The spectacle runs from mid-December through March, ...

Much of the eastern United States is currently undergoing a massive polar vortex, with another one expected to follow. Meanwhile, California basks in the sunshine. These conditions set the stage for ...