Southern elephant seals ... sub-Antarctic islands and South America, New Zealand beaches were once “heaving” with the colossal animals. “At the time of human arrival in New Zealand, you would be hard ...

"Although these seals no longer breed on the Antarctic mainland, we now have evidence to indicate they once did more than 1000 years ago. "There was no previous evidence of southern elephant seal ...

“Although these seals no longer breed on the Antarctic mainland, we now have evidence to indicate they once did more than 1000 years ago. “There was no previous evidence of southern elephant seal ...

"Although these seals no longer breed on the Antarctic mainland, we now have evidence to indicate they once did more than 1,000 years ago," Zhou said. Before discovering southern elephant seal DNA in ...