A recent study found that 47 percent of breeding female elephant seals on South Georgia, home to the world’s largest ...

The beaches of South Georgia, a remote splinter of ice and rock in the South Atlantic, should be a place of deafening, chaotic life. Normally, the shores host the planet’s largest gathering of ...

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

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

Since highly pathogenic avian influenza virus (HPAIV) spread to the island of South Georgia in the sub-Antarctic in 2023, its breeding population of female southern elephant seals—the world's ...

Drakes Beach in the Point Reyes National Seashore is temporarily closed to accommodate elephant seals that have set up camp for the breeding season. The annual ritual has brought at least 30 males to ...

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

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

POINT REYES, Calif. (KGO) -- In the North Bay, a major migration is happening in Marin County. Elephant seals are returning to Drake's Beach at the Point Reyes National Seashore for breeding season ...

That these seals can live to healthy old age is remarkable. Humans once hunted them rapaciously for their sweet, sweet oil.

Friends of the Elephant Seal holds a contest every year to guess when the first bull will arrive for the breeding season. The prize is the satisfaction of guessing right and being praised by FES ...

Drakes Beach in the Point Reyes National Seashore is temporarily closed to accommodate elephant seals that have set up camp for the breeding season. The annual ritual has brought at least 30 males to ...