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

Seven weaned elephant seal pups in California's Año Nuevo State Park tested positive for highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) H5N1, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Veterinary ...

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

Seven baby elephant seals have tested positive for H5N1, the first case of bird flu in California marine mammals. On Tuesday ...

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 ...

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

Gingerbread is sweet, warm, and a little bit spicy, which is why it's the perfect name for the first Northern Elephant Seal pup to be born at Piedras Blancas Rookery in Central California this winter.

Elephant seals are huge, gray and blubbery. They have a big snout and a very distinctive voice. (SOUNDBITE OF ELEPHANT SEAL GRUNTING) SUMMERS: But despite the obvious differences, elephant seals ...