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

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

The world's largest species of seal has been devastated by bird flu, which has wiped out half of all breeding females at a ...

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.

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

The avian flu is devastating marine mammal populations. A new survey finds that nearly half of breeding females in the world's largest population of southern elephant seals were killed by the virus.

Scientists are alarmed as southern elephant seals face sharp population declines, possibly due to disease and changing oceans ...

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

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

Bird flu has wiped out half of South Georgia’s breeding elephant seals, according to a study that warns of “serious implications” for the future of the species. The remote island in the South Atlantic ...

The world's largest species of seal has been devastated by bird flu, which has wiped out half of all breeding females at a ...