A deadly strain of bird flu sweeping through remote islands near Antarctica has devastated the native wildlife population, ...

Scientists say 13,000 southern elephant seal pups on Heard Island have died of the H5N1 strain.

Thousands of baby seals have died on an Australian island 4000km from the mainland, with bird flu named as the cause of death ...

More than 13,000 baby seals have been wiped out across two Antarctic Australian islands, scientists have discovered.

A devastating strain of bird flu has wiped out more than 75 per cent of the southern elephant seal pup population on a remote ...

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. The remote ...

Avian flu, long associated with birds, continues to surprise scientists as it spreads across species and oceans. After first jumping to dairy cows two years ago, the virus has now infected elephant ...

What can an elephant seal – a 4,000 pound, bellowing monstrosity that looks like a melted Yankee Candle – teach us about the world? Plenty, it turns out. “The animals are amazing. I mean, everything ...

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 ...