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 ...

Following mass deaths within a population of elephant seals, H5N1 has been officially confirmed on Heard Island.

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

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

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

A recent study found that 47 percent of breeding female elephant seals on South Georgia, home to the world’s largest ...

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 ...

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

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 ...