Few sights feel sweeter than a baby seal meeting water for the first time. In one widely shared Instagram reel, a fuzzy, fat ...

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

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

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

Authorities have confirmed the deadly and highly contagious H5 bird flu has reached an extremely remote Australian territory ...

Testing has confirmed a deadly strain of bird flu has reached an Australian sub-Antarctic island, after scientists raised the ...

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

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

A Journey to the Earth’s Last Wild Coasts is both a visual feast and a moral appeal – a large-format book filled with ...

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Apparently bird flu wasn't just for the birds. Scientists with the British Antarctic Survey say one species on a remote island was hit hard by the outbreak. South Georgia Island lies in the southern ...