California’s Año Nuevo State Park has closed its popular elephant seal viewing area after seven pups tested positive for avian flu.
After a catastrophic outbreak of bird flu devastated southern elephant seal populations in 2023, scientists are on high alert.
Strong, healthy and newly weaned from her mom on February 18, the plump elephant seal pup on the beach at Año Nuevo State ...
The confirmation last week of H5N1 bird flu in northern elephant seals at California’s Año Nuevo State Parkhas put wildlife ...
The outbreak marks the first cases of HPAI H5N1 in marine mammals in California and the first detection in northern elephant ...
Much of the eastern United States is currently undergoing a massive polar vortex, with another one expected to follow. Meanwhile, California basks in the sunshine. These conditions set the stage for ...
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Local experts are cautioning beachgoers to “share the shore” after a young elephant seal was found lounging on the Seaside beach Tuesday morning. According to the Seaside ...
VASHON ISLAND, Wash. — A rare sighting on Vashon Island has beachgoers talking after a massive elephant seal was spotted this week molting along one of the island’s popular beaches. Tramp Harbor, ...
Tracking data shows the seal’s yearly migration took him all the way to a remote Alaskan island chain before he eventually ...