Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An aerial image of the elephant seal colony at St. Andrew's Bay, one of the largest populations of southern elephant seals on ...

A fur seal. (British Antarctic Survey / Derren Fox via SWNS) By Lauren Beavis Melting sea ice is drastically impacting seal populations, experts warned today. The new study of Antarctic seals shows ...

CANBERRA/SYDNEY (Reuters) -Australian scientists have found hundreds of dead seal pups on Heard Island in the sub-Antarctic with signs that suggest they were killed by a destructive bird flu that has ...

Scientists recently confirmed that a variation of the avian influenza virus is responsible for sea bird deaths in Antarctica.

For the last year and a half, Americans have watched and worried as H5N1 bird flu racked dairy herds and killed hundreds of millions of commercially raised chickens, turkeys and ducks. But far less ...