Every year in May, female elephant seals leave the beaches in California where they gave birth, nursed young, and molted, to embark on a seven-month foraging migration across the North Pacific Ocean.

Elephants are the largest land animals, only outsized by giants of the sea such as whales. Their large stature makes them a sight to behold, which is one of the reasons people around the world love ...

A female elephant seal looks over the pile of seals with whom she shares the beach. Christine Heinrichs Adult female elephant seals and male and female juveniles occupy the beach at Piedras Blancas ...

Elephant seals are leaving California beaches to go to sea for food, but males and females are heading to different destinations. Photo from National Park Service Elephant seals are beginning their ...

PITTSBURGH (AP) — A Pittsburgh zoo says a baby elephant that had a feeding tube inserted to help it gain weight has been euthanized. Officials at the Pittsburgh Zoo & PPG Aquarium announced Wednesday ...

SAMBURU, Kenya (Reuters) – An elephant orphanage in Kenya is testing goat milk as a food for its small herd as a potentially healthier and cheaper form of nutrition than human baby formula – a ...