Jane Stevens at UC Santa Cruz Long Marine Lab - We're sad to say that the black-coat elephant seals that were rescued and transferred to the Marine Mammal Center died over the weekend. Mieke Eerkens from the Marine Mammal Center sent us this email: "I’m sorry to be the bearer of bad tidings and that this story didn’t have a happy ending. We are very disappointed, but it’s not entirely surprising, since they were very, very young and it can be hard to raise them away from their mothers successfully at that young age.