EditorialPhoca leonina, Print, The southern elephant seal (Mirounga leonina) is one of the two species of elephant seals. It is the largest member of the clade Pinnipedia and the order Carnivora, as well as the largest extant marine mammal that is not a cetacea...
EditorialSouthern elephant seal, male, Mirounga leonina (Elephant seal, Phoca proboscidea). Handcoloured steel engraving by W.H. Lizars after an illustration by James Stewart from Robert Hamilton's Amphibious Carnivora, part of Sir William Jardine's Naturalist'...
EditorialSouthern elephant seal, female, Mirounga leonina (Elephant seal, Phoca proboscidea). Handcoloured steel engraving by W.H. Lizars after an illustration by James Stewart from Robert Hamilton's Amphibious Carnivora, part of Sir William Jardine's Naturalis...
EditorialSouthern elephant seal, male, Mirounga leonina (Elephant seal, Phoca proboscidea). Handcoloured steel engraving by W.H. Lizars after an illustration by James Stewart from Robert Hamilton's Amphibious Carnivora, part of Sir William Jardine's Naturalist'...
EditorialSouthern elephant seal, female, Mirounga leonina (Elephant seal, Phoca proboscidea). Handcoloured steel engraving by W.H. Lizars after an illustration by James Stewart from Robert Hamilton's Amphibious Carnivora, part of Sir William Jardine's Naturalis...
EditorialSouthern elephant seal, Mirounga leonina (Phoca proboscidea) basking on King Island, Tasmania. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Bertuch's "Bilderbuch fur Kinder" (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1807. Friedrich Johann Bertuch (1747-1822) was...
EditorialHooded seal, Cystophora cristata (vulnerable) and northern elephant seal, Mirounga angustirostris. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Frederic Cuvier's "Dictionary of Natural Science: Mammals," Paris, France, 1816. Illustration by J. G. Pr...