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

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

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Two species of seal live in the UK all year round – the grey seal and the harbour seal. These earless seals are found around much of our coastline and sometimes venture into our rivers too. The grey ...

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

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 ...

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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 ...

The avian flu is devastating marine mammal populations. A new survey finds that nearly half of breeding females in the world's largest population of southern elephant seals were killed by the virus.

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 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 ...