His system of nomenclature and classification is fundamental to the study of not just evolution but of taxonomy and ...

Bird flu fears have focused on the poultry and dairy industries and human health. But wild animals are threatened, too—at ...

The virus, which scientists call H5N1, has spread like wildfire around the globe in recent years, surprising and horrifying ...

The first known worldwide marine rabies epidemic has emerged among Cape fur seals ( Arctocephalus pusillus pusillus ), ...

Southern elephant seal numbers shared similar population trends over time, but in this study, they showed no significant overall long-term decline. A Weddell seal.

Melting sea ice is drastically impacting seal populations, experts warned today. The new study of Antarctic seals shows that environmental conditions, namely melting sea ice due to increasing ...

Vera Panescu-Reich captures elephant seal swallowing shark on camera near Bainbridge. Her TikTok video goes viral, leaving her stunned by nature's wonders.

Year after year, a colony of elephant seals arrives in Jackson Bay, on the islands of Tierra del Fuego at the southern tip of Chile, to molt and breed. However, in 2023, an outbreak of avian flu ...

In late 2023, bird flu arrived on the rocky shores of the Valdés Peninsula in Argentina, ripping through the local colony of southern elephant seals. More than 17,000 seal pups died. It could ...

Residents of a suburban area were taken by surprise when a massive southern elephant seal was discovered along the side of a road, about half a mile inland.

A large elephant seal took a wrong turn and was seen lumbering along a street in a coastal town in South Africa, surprising residents and inspiring a rescue effort to get him back to sea.