Dion George says he is taking a big, bold step — putting the wild, frigid seventh continent at the heart of the country’s ...

Today, the largest southern elephant seal populations are found on subantarctic islands ... many smaller populations existed on the Victoria Land Coast in Antarctica and closer to temperate zones, on ...

Populations of Antarctic seals have halved over 50 years amid a warming climate and shrinking sea ice, a new study has shown. Researchers from Madingley Road-based British Antarctic Survey (BAS) have ...

Long Island’s last commercial duck farm is rebuilding after a bird flu outbreak forced the destruction of its entire ...

The animal kingdom has some giants. Blue Whale is the heaviest animal. Whale Shark is the largest fish. African Elephant is the heaviest land animal. White Rhinoceros is bulky. Hippopotamus is ...

Southern elephant seal numbers shared similar population trends over time, but in this study they showed no significant overall long-term decline. The changes in all three species are strongly linked ...

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.

Seal populations drastically dwindling as Antartic ice disappears A new study shows that melting sea ice due to increasing temperatures is leading to a "concerning" and severe decline in their ...

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 ...

Highly pathogenic H5N1 bird flu has been around since the 1990s, but this current bird flu pandemic started in Asia in 2020, when a low pathogenic strain mutated into a high pathogenic strain called ...