PESCADERO — Every year from late December through March, scientists from the Beltran and Costa labs at UC Santa Cruz set out ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Southern Elephant Seal (Mirounga leonina) fights with a rival for control of a large harem of females during the breeding season ...

About 30 seals had died as of Thursday, nearly all of them weaned pups, amid the rise of avian influenza ...

An ODFW spokesperson said the agency will track cases, although they're expected to remain near California's Año Nuevo State ...

Researchers are on high alert monitoring the local Piedras Blancas elephant seal rookery — though there is good news.

Researchers have found avian flu in elephant seal pups at California's Año Nuevo State Park, and officials have stopped ...

Seven weaned elephant seal pups in California's Año Nuevo State Park tested positive for highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) H5N1, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Veterinary ...

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

A “small number” of elephant seal illnesses recently observed near Año Nuevo State Park on the San Mateo County coast has prompted officials to temporarily halt guided tours to the ...

Elephant seals are huge, gray and blubbery. They have a big snout and a very distinctive voice. (SOUNDBITE OF ELEPHANT SEAL GRUNTING) SUMMERS: But despite the obvious differences, elephant seals ...

Much of the eastern United States is currently undergoing a massive polar vortex, with another one expected to follow. Meanwhile, California basks in the sunshine. These conditions set the stage for ...