After the H5N1 virus hit the remote island of South Georgia in 2023, more than 50,000 breeding females may have disappeared.

The world's largest species of seal has been devastated by bird flu, which has wiped out half of all breeding females at a ...

The largest population of elephant seals in the world suffered massive mortality in 2023 from H5N1 bird flu infection. Animal experts fear for California's elephant seals.

The sudden decimation by bird flu of the world's largest seal has sent shockwaves through the scientific community, and the ...

The beaches of South Georgia, a remote splinter of ice and rock in the South Atlantic, should be a place of deafening, ...

Scientists have seen a significant drop in breeding female elephant seals following an avian influenza outbreak on the ...

The British Antarctic Survey estimates that more than 50,000 individuals are missing from the beaches following the virus’s ...

You may have thought Big Bird was unrealistically gigantic, but he’s still not the largest bird to ever walk the Earth. That honor goes to elephant birds, which stood 10 feet tall and roamed ...

The remote island of South Georgia in Antarctica is home to a majority of all southern elephant seals. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

History has not been kind to the elephant bird of Madagascar. Standing nearly 10 feet tall and weighing up to 1,000 pounds — or so researchers believed — this flightless cousin of the ostrich went ...