A Birds-Eye View of the Impacts of H5N1 on Pinniped Conservation March 22, 2026 - By Kat Kerlin - When the H5N1 highly ...

Drakes Beach in the Point Reyes National Seashore is temporarily closed to accommodate elephant seals that have set up camp for the breeding season. The annual ritual has brought at least 30 males to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Seals have had a record pupping season at vital Suffolk breeding colony. National Trust rangers at Orford Ness are celebrating a ...

Every year from late December through March, scientists from the Beltran and Costa labs at UC Santa Cruz set out for the beaches of Año Nuevo State Park. There, thousands of elephant ...

Highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1, a virus that spilled over from birds into marine mammals along the coast of South ...

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 ...

PESCADERO, Calif. — Every winter about 10,000 elephant seals make their way to California's Año Nuevo State Park to fight, mate and give birth. The spectacle runs from mid-December through March, ...

Researchers say seven seal pups have tested positive for an avian flu virus at California's Año Nuevo State Park and several more are showing signs of the illness. The outbreak has prompted park ...

Highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 is estimated to have killed at least about 52,000 seals and sea lions across South America, based on published scientific tallies of the 2023 outbreak and its ...