Each year, elephant seals take a month or so to shed their worn fur for a new coat. Photo Credit: Tom Stieghorst Robert's Island, ANTARCTICA -- Seeing a single elephant seal is enough to make one stop ...

Bird flu has made its way into fur and elephant seal populations for the first time on the sub-Antarctic island of South Georgia, a team of scientists confirmed on Thursday, setting off alarm bells ...

Apparently bird flu wasn't just for the birds. Scientists with the British Antarctic Survey say one species on a remote island was hit hard by the outbreak. South Georgia Island lies in the southern ...

Jan 11 (Reuters) - Bird flu has made its way into fur and elephant seal populations for the first time on the sub-Antarctic island of South Georgia, a team of scientists confirmed on Thursday, setting ...

Scientists confirm a deadly strain of avian influenza (H5 bird flu) has been detected in southern elephant seals on Heard Island, a remote sub-Antarctic Australian external territory.

For the last year and a half, Americans have watched and worried as H5N1 bird flu racked dairy herds and killed hundreds of millions of commercially raised chickens, turkeys and ducks. But far less ...

Following mass deaths within a population of elephant seals, H5N1 has been officially confirmed on Heard Island.