The bluff at La Jolla Cove in San Diego is covered with pelicans and cormorants; below, some two dozen sea lions lounge on a rocky ledge or bark and frolic in the shallows, some leaping clear out of ...

The ocean is home to some of the most awe-inspiring creatures on Earth, many of which dwarf anything found on land. From massive whales to elusive deep-sea dwellers, these giants of the sea ...

Suspected bird flu has reached Australia's sub-Antarctic Heard Island, with signs of the deadly H5 avian disease observed in ...

For years, illegal fishing vessels operated near Australia’s Heard and McDonald Islands. Here’s what happened after they were ...

Scientists have raised the alarm after signs of a deadly bird flu strain were observed on a remote sub-Antarctic island off ...

Australia's scientists observe signs pointing to the destructive H5 bird flu on Heard Island in the Southern Ocean, noted after unusual elephant seal deaths. Although not confirmed, such symptoms ...

Australia said on Friday that scientists had seen symptoms consistent with the destructive H5 bird flu strain on its ...

The first case of suspected H5 bird flu has been detected in elephant seals on the Australian Antarctic Territory of Heard ...

Australian scientists have observed signs consistent with H5 avian influenza (bird flu) in wildlife during a management voyage to sub-Antarctic Heard ...

Pacific harbor seals — the playful, whiskered charmers found along the West Coast from southern Alaska to Baja California — ...