A seemingly lighthearted vacation moment turned into one of the week’s most-shared viral clips. This happened when a woman’s attempt to pose on an elephant’s trunk ended with her being tossed into the ...

A large elephant was spotted quenching its thirst in the ocean off Pinellas County. Witnesses said they believe the elephant was part of a beach birthday party when it broke away and got into the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Elephant seal sleeping in Antarctica.Sebnem Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images Elephant seals drift downwards in a "sleep ...

Ocean warming has a negative impact on the condition of elephant seals, reveals a study published in the Open Access journal BMC Biology. High ocean temperatures observed from 1975 to the late 1990s ...

For the first time, scientists have recorded brain activity in a free-ranging, wild marine mammal, revealing the sleep habits of elephant seals during the months they spend at sea. The new findings, ...

It long seemed as if African elephants were the champions of the all-nighter. They can get by on about two hours of sleep. Other mammals need much more, like koalas (20 hours) or you (at least seven ...

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 ...

Northern elephant seals might be masters of multitasking in the animal kingdom because they’ve learned how to sleep and dive at the same time — all while avoiding predators. The elephant seals can ...

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 ...

The surprisingly short shut-eye may be a way for the elephant seal to avoid predators—an intriguing find from the first-ever sleep study on marine mammals in the wild. A baby northern elephant seal ...

Elephant seals sleep about 10 hours a day on the beach, but during months-long foraging trips at sea they average just 2 hours of sleep per day. These 2-month-old northern elephant seals are sleeping ...