After a catastrophic outbreak of bird flu devastated southern elephant seal populations in 2023, scientists are on high alert ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An aerial image of the elephant seal colony at St. Andrew's Bay, one of the largest populations of southern elephant seals on ...

The Marine Mammal Center is testing a Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza vaccine on elephant seals at its Sausalito hospital. If it is effective in producing antibodies, the center plans to vaccinate ...

California’s Año Nuevo State Park has closed its popular elephant seal viewing area after seven pups tested positive for avian flu.

Researchers are on high alert monitoring the local Piedras Blancas elephant seal rookery — though there is good news.

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 ...

On a beach in San Francisco, a crowd gathers to watch an elephant seal as it writhes in the sand. Concern increases as ...

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 ...