California’s Año Nuevo State Park has closed its popular elephant seal viewing area after seven pups tested positive for avian flu.

Seven baby elephant seals have tested positive for H5N1, the first case of bird flu in California marine mammals. On Tuesday ...

Multiple elephant seal pups along the Northern California coast have tested positive for the deadly avian influenza, or bird ...

The confirmation last week of H5N1 bird flu in northern elephant seals at California’s Año Nuevo State Parkhas put wildlife ...

After a catastrophic outbreak of bird flu devastated southern elephant seal populations in 2023, scientists are on high alert.

Baby seal deaths and seizures alerted scientists to discover the outbreak at at Año Nuevo State Park officials said.

Researchers have found avian flu in elephant seal pups at California's Año Nuevo State Park, and officials have stopped ...

"This is exceptionally rapid detection of an outbreak." ...

Strong, healthy and newly weaned from her mom on February 18, the plump elephant seal pup on the beach at Año Nuevo State ...

The sounds of barking elephant seals are again in the air along the breeding grounds of Península Valdés, Argentina—but it's quieter. Almost exactly a year after a massive outbreak of H5N1 highly ...

Seven weaned elephant seal pups in California's Año Nuevo State Park tested positive for highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) H5N1, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Veterinary ...

Three elephant seals returned to the ocean Wednesday morning, Oct. 2, marking what the Marine Mammal Care Center in San Pedro said was the final release of a busy season for the species. The release ...