Elite free divers can hold their breath for 10 minutes after years of rigorous, sometimes dangerous training. Northern elephant seals practically live underwater, taking up to 90 minutes between ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An elephant seal forages for fish near an underwater observatory called in Berkley Canyon off the coast of British Columbia. This ...

Tracking data shows the seal’s yearly migration took him all the way to a remote Alaskan island chain before he eventually ...

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 ...

Seals have a reputation for being the laid-back loungers of the animal kingdom, but there’s a lot more going on beneath that sleek surface. Seals, with dive times that rival submarines and milk fat ...

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 ...

The relationship between oceanographic conditions and predator population dynamics is a complex but critical area of study in understanding marine ecosystems. In particular, the northern elephant seal ...