Wildlife authorities confirmed Thursday that nine more elephant seals, a sea lion and an otter have died from bird flu at Ano Nuevo State Park in San Mateo County.
"This is exceptionally rapid detection of an outbreak." ...
A multiagency team of wildlife experts confirmed this week that several elephant seals belonging to the famed colony at Año ...
A lethal form of bird flu, which has already killed tens of thousands of elephant seals in the Southern Hemisphere, is now spreading in a colony of elephant seals in California, scientists announced ...
Researchers are on high alert monitoring the local Piedras Blancas elephant seal rookery — though there is good news.
Ever since a deadly strain of avian influenza, H5N1, killed some 17,000 southern elephant seal pups on South American coastlines in 2023 and 2024, researchers and public officials have kept an ...