Bay Area authorities are searching for two people after video captured what officials described as a deliberate attack on a federally protected elephant seal at Point Reyes National Seashore, an ...

Strong, healthy and newly weaned from her mom on February 18, the plump elephant seal pup on the beach at Año Nuevo State ...

Researchers at UC Davis say news they've dreaded since 2023 has come to pass: California's elephant seals have been infected ...

Earlier this month, two people were seen on a livestream throwing rocks at an elephant seal resting on the beach at the Point Reyes National Seashore. Now, officials are seeking the public’s help in ...

Ever since a deadly strain of avian influenza, H5N1, killed some 17,000 southern elephant seal pups on South American coastlines in 2023 and 2024, researchers and public officials have kept an ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. H5N1 bird flu is devastating marine mammals in the Southern Hemisphere, with some elephant seal colonies suffering ...

At the end of 2023, an outbreak of avian flu devastated a colony of southern elephant seals in Argentina’s Valdés Peninsula. It may take a century for the population to return to the 18,000 breeding ...

“The animals are amazing. I mean, everything they do is extreme,” said Daniel Costa, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at UC Santa Cruz. “They’re the deepest-diving pinniped and they dive ...

A lethal form of bird flu, which has already killed tens of thousands of elephant seals in the Southern Hemisphere, is now spreading in a colony of elephant seals in California, scientists announced ...