Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Southern Elephant Seal (Mirounga leonina) fights with a rival for control of a large harem of females during the breeding season ...

PESCADERO, Calif. — Every winter about 10,000 elephant seals make their way to California's Año Nuevo State Park to fight, mate and give birth. The spectacle runs from mid-December through March, ...

These two male elephant seals took their battle into the ocean at the Piedras Blancas rookery. The one on the right began the fight with bleeding wounds on his chest shield. Christine Heinrichs ...

During what park docent Laura Stern called "pupping season," bull seals—some reaching up to 16 feet (4.9 meters) in length and weighing up to 2.5 tons—engage in bloody battles for breeding access to ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. PESCADERO, Calif. (AP) — Every winter about ...