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, ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Studying the ocean is a daunting task. It requires machines that don ...

Humans have sailed the oceans' surfaces for millennia, but their depths remain effectively uncharted. Only about a quarter of the seafloor has been mapped at high resolution. Maps of most regions ...