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

An ODFW spokesperson said the agency will track cases, although they're expected to remain near California's Año Nuevo State ...

Researchers at UC Davis say news they've dreaded since 2023 has come to pass: California's elephant seals have been infected ...

Researchers say seven seal pups have tested positive for an avian flu virus at California’s Año Nuevo State Park and several ...

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

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

A lethal form of bird flu, which has already killed tens of thousands of elephant seals in the Southern Hemisphere, is now spreading in a colony of elephant seals in California, scientists announced ...

Multiple elephant seal pups along the Northern California coast have tested positive for the deadly avian influenza, or bird flu, according to new research from the University of California.

Ever since a deadly strain of avian influenza, H5N1, killed some 17,000 southern elephant seal pups on South American coastlines in 2023 and 2024, researchers and public officials have kept an ...

The avian flu has been identified for the first time in northern elephant seals at Año Nuevo State Park in California, ...

Scientists have confirmed seven elephant seal pups have tested positive for avian flu at California’s Año Nuevo State Park.

The outbreak marks the first cases of HPAI H5N1 in marine mammals in California and the first detection in northern elephant ...