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

In 2023, bird flu reached a remote island in the southern Atlantic Ocean. Now, South Georgia—home to the world’s largest southern elephant seal population—has been transformed. Drone images of the ...

The federal government says testing confirms the presence of avian influenza in samples collected from southern elephant ...

On Heard Island, a remote Australian subantarctic island some 4,000 km southwest of Perth, scientists were concerned after ...

An aerial image of the elephant seal colony at St. Andrew's Bay, one of the largest populations of southern elephant seals on South Georgia Island. (British Antarctic Survey) For the last year and a ...

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

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

Southern elephant seals, once symbols of ocean strength, are now in trouble. Populations are shrinking fast across Antarctica’s wild coasts. Scientists are searching for answers as a strange illness ...

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

Mature bull elephant seals, foraging at sea for the past ten or twelve weeks, will start arriving a tPiedras Blancas any day. They are at their biggest and loudest now. They are ready for action. The ...

Scientists have seen a significant drop in breeding female elephant seals following an avian influenza outbreak on the sub-Antarctic island of South Georgia, as ITV News' Science Correspondent Martin ...