Scientists recorded a 47 percent drop in breeding females in South Georgia’s three largest elephant seal colonies after bird ...

Apparently bird flu wasn't just for the birds. Scientists with the British Antarctic Survey say one species on a remote ...

The sudden decimation by bird flu of the world's largest seal has sent shockwaves through the scientific community, and 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 ...

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

In the last few months there have been at least twenty incidents of elephant seals emerging along Uruguayan beaches, both ...

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.

Since highly pathogenic avian influenza virus (HPAIV) spread to the island of South Georgia in the sub-Antarctic in 2023, its ...

A new study has found that bird flu wiped out half of the world’s largest population of elephant seals. Researchers have ...

You may have thought Big Bird was unrealistically gigantic, but he's still not the largest bird to ever walk the Earth. That honor goes to elephant birds, which stood 10 feet tall and roamed ...

History has not been kind to the elephant bird of Madagascar. Standing nearly 10 feet tall and weighing up to 1,000 pounds — or so researchers believed — this flightless cousin of the ostrich went ...

A previously unknown species of elephant bird was recently discovered on the northeastern side of Madagascar and was identified solely from its ancient eggshells Surface scatter of Aepyornis eggshell ...