In 2023, bird flu reached a remote island in the southern Atlantic Ocean. Now, South Georgia—home to the world’s largest ...

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.

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

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

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

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

In the last few months there have been at least twenty incidents of elephant seals emerging along Uruguayan beaches, both ...

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

Scientists have seen a significant drop in breeding female elephant seals following an avian influenza outbreak on the ...

Cruising high over a remote sub-Antarctic island, drones have captured a situation unfolding that has scientists alarmed. The ...

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

New research reveals 47% decline in breeding female elephant seals at sub-Antarctic island of South Georgia following a ...