“Elephant seals dive 5,800 feet under water,” he said. “They don’t breathe for 2 hours. How do they do that? They can swim to the Aleutian Islands and back without a compass. They are fasc ...

Southern elephant seals are native to the cold waters of the Southern Ocean, in between South Africa and Antarctica. They usually dive deep for squid and fish, and occasionally show up on Western ...

"It's a cacophony in a seal colony," explains Dr Caroline Casey, where hundreds of mums and pups call at once. Now, research led by California-based scientists has revealed that mother elephant ...

The elephant is carved on to a gemstone, which experts believe is probably a carnelian A medieval gold seal which shows an elephant carrying a castle on its back has become only the third of its ...