Honey badgers are not actually named for their love of honey, in fact, they raid bee hives to loot the delicious, ...

On a cool December afternoon at the Fort Worth Zoo, Lady Bird splashes her tiny trunk in a watering hole while her mother, ...

In a dusty corral ringed by posts as thick as telephone polls, the orphan elephants of the Reteti Elephant Sanctuary in Kenya ...

Larger animals do get more cancer than smaller ones, overturning the 45-year-old “Peto’s paradox” which suggested no link between animal size and cancer risk Species that evolved larger body sizes ...

A Hawaiian Monk Seal swims in the pool for enrichment after receiving a bird flu vaccine at Ke Kai Ola, the Marine Mammal ...

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Samples were collected from the animals during a voyage to the island for the Australian Antarctic Program. Scientists observed unusual levels of mortality in elephant seals but not in other species.

Samples from dead elephant seals were collected in October after scientists visiting Heard Island aboard the icebreaker RSV Nuyina observed unusual levels of mortality in the population. The samples ...

A new study has found that bird flu wiped out half of the world’s largest population of elephant seals. Researchers have estimated that 53,000 female elephant seals died in 2023 after bird flu hit ...

In 2023, bird flu reached a remote island in the southern Atlantic Ocean. Now, South Georgia—home to the world’s largest southern elephant seal population—has been transformed. Drone images of the ...