Elephant seals viewed from a drone on South Georgia (Pic BAS) A team of researchers are using drones and satellite images from space to count southern elephant seals on the sub-Antarctic Island of ...

Today they number in the low millions, the vast majority of which breed on South Georgia. Likewise, hundreds of thousands of southern elephant seals come to the island each summer to breed and to ...

Home to leopard seals, among the most elegant marine mammals, this Antarctic dive spot earns top marks for its photogenic ...

The Living Edens: South Georgia Island shows examples of organisms ... Macaroni penguins, leopard seals, krill, elephant seals, snow petrels, skuas, fur seals, squid, various insects, and grass.

Every spring, like when cherry blossoms bloom, the northern elephant seal known as Elsie Mae returns to Anacortes and Fidalgo Island. Born in 2018 on Whidbey Island, Elsie Mae has been a star: ...

In 2020, it began to journey toward South Georgia. As the island is home to a plethora ... as half the global population of Southern Elephant Seals. Adventurous tourists can come see these ...

The authorities said that the attack, which the seal survived, occurred on a cold evening in a cove along the Pacific Coast. By Adeel Hassan For several weeks, federal wildlife officials have been ...

In his journal he described the island as “Lands doomed ... aspect that Cook took away from South Georgia was the huge abundance of fur seals, elephant seals and whales. When word of this ...

South Georgia Island is isolated from the civilized ... on to rescue the men who had been left at King Haakon Bay and Elephant Island. Amazingly, not a single man was lost on the expedition.