A highly contagious strain of avian flu has been detected in northern elephant seals at Año Nuevo State Park, the first time the disease has been detected in California’s marine mammal population.

For the last year and a half, Americans have watched and worried as H5N1 bird flu racked dairy herds and killed hundreds of millions of commercially raised chickens, turkeys and ducks. But far less ...

After a catastrophic outbreak of bird flu devastated southern elephant seal populations in 2023, scientists are on high alert.

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (WKRC/CNN Newsource) - Residents of a suburban area were taken by surprise when a massive southern elephant seal was discovered along the side of a road, about half a mile ...