Highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1, a virus that spilled over from birds into marine mammals along the coast of South ...
A Birds-Eye View of the Impacts of H5N1 on Pinniped Conservation March 22, 2026 - By Kat Kerlin - When the H5N1 highly ...
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 ...
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 ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Southern Elephant Seal (Mirounga leonina) fights with a rival for control of a large harem of females during the breeding season ...
After a catastrophic outbreak of bird flu devastated southern elephant seal populations in 2023, scientists are on high alert.
The Marine Mammal Center received multiple reports of a northern elephant seal pup on two different Santa Cruz beaches ...
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 ...