Elephant seals or sea elephants are very large, oceangoing earless seals in the genus Mirounga. Both species, the northern elephant seal (M. angustirostris)...

The southern elephant seal (Mirounga leonina) is one of two species of elephant seals. It is the largest member of the clade Pinnipedia and the order Carnivora...

The northern elephant seal (Mirounga angustirostris) is one of two species of elephant seal (the other is the southern elephant seal). It is a member...

ago. Seals range in size from the 1 m (3 ft 3 in) and 45 kg (100 lb) Baikal seal to the 5 m (16 ft) and 3,200 kg (7,100 lb) southern elephant seal. Several...

Enaliarctos, most closely related to the mustelids and bears. Monk seals and elephant seals were previously believed to have first entered the Pacific through...

leopard seal (Hydrurga leptonyx), also referred to as the sea leopard, is the second largest species of seal in the Antarctic (after the southern elephant seal)...

Neil (born October 2020), also known as Neil the Seal, is a southern elephant seal in the Australian state of Tasmania. He was born in Salem Bay, Tasmania...

exceptionally large elephant seal at weaning age. Super weaners may reach their large sizes by stealing milk from nursing female elephant seals or by being adopted...

elephant seal – large, oceangoing mammals of the genus Mirounga. There are two species: the northern (M. angustirostris) and southern elephant seal (M...

Baikal seal, Lake Baikal seal or nerpa (Pusa sibirica) is a species of earless seal endemic to Lake Baikal in Siberia, Russia. Like the Caspian seal, it...

are weaned, while the mother loses up to 140 kg (300 lb). Monk seals, like elephant seals, shed their hair and the outer layer of their skin in an annual...

The grey seal (Halichoerus grypus) is a large seal of the family Phocidae, which are commonly referred to as "true seals" or "earless seals". The only...

The harbor (or harbour) seal (Phoca vitulina), also known as the common seal, is a true seal found along temperate and Arctic marine coastlines of the...

The crabeater seal (Lobodon carcinophaga), also known as the krill-eater seal, is a true seal with a circumpolar distribution around the coast of Antarctica...

The harp seal (Pagophilus groenlandicus), also known as Saddleback Seal or Greenland Seal, is a species of earless seal, or true seal, native to the northernmost...

ancestral Lobodontini likely diverged from its sister clade, Mirounga (elephant seals) in the late Miocene to early Pliocene, when they migrated southward...

brown fur seal (Arctocephalus pusillus), also known as the Cape fur seal, and Afro-Australian fur seal, is a species of fur seal. The brown fur seal is the...

Monachini (monk seals) Mirounga (elephant seals) Northern elephant seal (M. angustirostris) Southern elephant seal (M. leonina) Lobodontini (Antarctic seals)...

The ringed seal (Pusa hispida) is an earless seal inhabiting the Arctic and sub-Arctic regions. The ringed seal is a relatively small seal, rarely greater...

Independent. Retrieved June 19, 2022. "Friends of the Elephant Seal | Piedras Blancas Northern Elephant Seal Rookery". elephantseal.org. Retrieved March 2, 2022...

The Mediterranean monk seal (Monachus monachus) is a monk seal belonging to the family Phocidae. As of 2015[update], it is estimated that fewer than 700...

largest of the so-called eared seals (Otariidae). Among pinnipeds, only the walrus and the two species of elephant seal are bigger. The species is named...

and, among pinnipeds, are exceeded in size only by the two species of elephant seals. Walrus live mostly in shallow waters above the continental shelves...

classic example of a population bottleneck is that of the northern elephant seal, whose population fell to about 30 in the 1890s. Although it now numbers...

Monachini (monk seals) Mirounga (elephant seals) Northern elephant seal (M. angustirostris) Southern elephant seal (M. leonina) Lobodontini (Antarctic seals)...

elephant seals, for which the other islands in the group are haul-out sites. Killer whales are seen offshore. Since 1995[update], the Elephant Seal Research...

crushes them, leading to the species' extinction. The alpha male of an elephant seal colony (Bender) mates freely with dozens of females, while the less...

Monachini (monk seals) Mirounga (elephant seals) Northern elephant seal (M. angustirostris) Southern elephant seal (M. leonina) Lobodontini (Antarctic seals)...

seal (Leptonychotes weddellii) is a relatively large and abundant true seal with a circumpolar distribution surrounding Antarctica. The Weddell seal was...

The hooded seal (Cystophora cristata) is a large phocid found only in the central and western North Atlantic, ranging from Svalbard in the east to the...