Last summer, the Vancouver Aquarium started offering sea otter encounters, and the Straight had the chance to see what it was like to interact a little more closely with the aquarium’s fluffiest ...

Elephant seals are being used as nature's artificial intelligence to monitor the health of the oceans -- especially the ...

By studying elephant seals' hunting patterns, scientists have discovered a new way to monitor deep-sea fish populations. These seals are acting as "smart sensors," revealing critical data about an ...

Over the past 60 years, marine biologists at UC Santa Cruz have monitored the behavior of northern elephant seals that ...

A baby seal was rescued after being attacked by a shark off the coast of New Jersey, officials said. On Feb. 10, rescuers got reports of a “very thin” male gray seal pup lying on a beach in Longport ...

A paper published on February 12 in the journal Ecology details how the researchers used motion-triggered cameras placed at ...