Right in the middle of our minute's silence, an elephant seal farted.

The higher the SAM index, the lower the number of elephant seal births.

Having the manual dexterity of an elephant seal doesn't help.

Lars Boehme walks away from an elephant seal on one of West Antarctica's Schaefer Islands.

The elephant seal can be seen writhing as it's surrounded by a large crowd of people holding up a tarpaulin.

They monitored the swimming motion of the whale shark, the white shark, the northern fur seal, and the southern elephant seal.

A young elephant seal sleeps amid chunks of ice on a beach at Lagoon Island, Antarctica, January 17, 2009.

Remember the southern elephant seal, where adult males are typically twice the length of adult females-andmay be as much as ten times heavier?

It is impossible to understand the social life of a phalarope or a sage grouse or an elephant seal or a chimpanzee in isolation.

A young elephant seal is braving the waters of the Agulhas Current after his release off the coast of Port...

Sadly, popular Australian naturalist Steve Irwin completed the taping of his role as an elephant seal just a month before his untimely death in September.

Thus, bull elephant seals and red deer stags are big, armed, and dangerous.

Antarctica is the realm of albatross, elephant seals, penguins and predatory skua birds.

Once a year, it is host to the breeding of hundreds of northern elephant seals.

They did resemble groups of elephant seals from far away, but the travel brochure had shown dolphins.

Getting off the boat in King Haakon Bay, the group was being met by the elephant seals.