Picture shows a specimen of an southern elephant seal (M. leonina) on the beach of Puerto Penasco, Mexcio, on Saturday, April 8, 2023. It was a male elephant seal measuring 3 metres in length and weighing close to one ton.
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10 April 2023
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A large elephant seal that was spotted on a beach near a Mexican resort town could be the largest of its kind in the world today. The male southern elephant seal (Mirounga leonina) reportedly measured three metres (10 feet) long and weighed approximately one tonne (2,200 lbs), with local...