The sudden decimation by bird flu of the world's largest seal has sent shockwaves through the scientific community, and the ...

After the H5N1 virus hit the remote island of South Georgia in 2023, more than 50,000 breeding females may have disappeared.

Nearly half of the breeding female elephant seals on South Georgia, a remote island near Antarctica, have died in a bird flu ...

The world's largest species of seal has been devastated by bird flu, which has wiped out half of all breeding females at a ...

The largest population of elephant seals in the world suffered massive mortality in 2023 from H5N1 bird flu infection. Animal experts fear for California's elephant seals.

The beaches of South Georgia, a remote splinter of ice and rock in the South Atlantic, should be a place of deafening, ...

The British Antarctic Survey estimates that more than 50,000 individuals are missing from the beaches following the virus’s ...

Since highly pathogenic avian influenza virus (HPAIV) spread to the island of South Georgia in the sub-Antarctic in 2023, its ...

The avian flu is devastating marine mammal populations. A new survey finds that nearly half of breeding females in the world's largest population of southern elephant seals were killed by the virus.

Friends of the Elephant Seal is even holding a contest to guess when the first bull will arrive for the breeding season.

Scientists are alarmed as southern elephant seals face sharp population declines, possibly due to disease and changing oceans ...

The United States is home to 33 species of seals, from California sea lions to gray seals, and you can see them in more ...