Oceanographers are using data collected by elephant seals to improve their map of the seafloor on Antarctica’s continental shelf. The new map results from a collaboration between Daniel Costa, a ...

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A female elephant seal with her pup on the beach at Año Nuevo Reserve. (Photo by Dan Costa) Each year, pregnant female elephant seals take an approximately 240-day trek over 10,000 kilometers across ...

SANTA CRUZ, Calif., Oct. 7 (UPI) -- Seals diving deep in the ocean for food near Antarctica are helping provide extremely accurate data for use in mapping the sea floor, oceanographers say. Seals, ...

Studying the ocean is a daunting task. It requires machines that don’t corrode in the seawater, and are able to withstand the escalating, crushing pressures as they dive down. While robots have become ...

Each year, pregnant female elephant seals take an approximately 240-day trek over 10,000 kilometers across the Eastern North Pacific Ocean before returning to their breeding beaches to give birth ...