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.

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

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

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

Scientists have confirmed the presence of H5 bird flu on a sub-Antarctic Australian territory, Heard Island, following ...

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

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 deadly H5 strain of bird flu has reached one of Australia's sub-Antarctic islands, officials have confirmed, but they say ...

The sudden decimation by bird flu of the world's largest seal species has sent shockwaves through the scientific community, and the ecosystems shaped by these majestic animals. At up to 5.8 metres ...

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