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

Every year from late December through March, scientists from the Beltran and Costa labs at UC Santa Cruz set out for the ...

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

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

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

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

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

H5N1 bird flu has been confirmed for the first time in northern elephant seal pups 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 ...

The outbreak marks the first H5N1 detection in marine mammals in California, and the first detection of the virus in northern ...

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 ...

H5N1 avian flu outbreak marks the first cases in marine mammals in California and first detection in northern elephant seals ...