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

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

Bird flu has wiped out half of South Georgia’s breeding elephant seals, according to a study that warns of “serious implications” for the future of the species. The remote island in the South Atlantic ...

Cruising high over a remote sub-Antarctic island, drones have captured a situation unfolding that has scientists alarmed. The vision has revealed one of the world’s four main southern elephant seal ...

The world's largest species of seal has been devastated by bird flu, which has wiped out half of all breeding females at a key wildlife haven near Antarctica, scientists warned Thursday.