The first seven cases of avian influenza were confirmed by preliminary testing at UC Davis and confirmatory testing by the ...

On a beach in San Francisco, a crowd gathers to watch an elephant seal as it writhes in the sand. Concern increases as ...

Health officials are warning beachgoers to stay away from marine life after confirming the state's first cases of bird flu in elephant seals at Año Nuevo State Park in San Mateo County.

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

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

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

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

California has detected its first cases of highly pathogenic avian influenza in marine mammals. Marine veterinarians in ...

Researchers are on high alert monitoring the local Piedras Blancas elephant seal rookery — though there is good news.

A “small number” of elephant seal illnesses recently observed near Año Nuevo State Park on the San Mateo County coast has prompted officials to temporarily halt guided tours to the ...

What can an elephant seal – a 4,000 pound, bellowing monstrosity that looks like a melted Yankee Candle – teach us about the world? Plenty, it turns out. “The animals are amazing. I mean, everything ...

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