Scientists recorded a 47 percent drop in breeding females in South Georgia’s three largest elephant seal colonies after bird ...

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

Seals can reach places under the Antarctic ice that technical equipment can't. NASA scientists have playful helpers for studying the earth's climate: elephant seals wearing hat-like antenna. The ...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (WSVN) — An elephant seal wandered its way into the suburbs, making for quite the sight for residents in South Africa. The massive marine mammal was seen wandering through a ...