But the recovery process for many colonies, which were nearly wiped out in some areas, could be just beginning. The H5N1 influenza hit populations of southern elephant seals (Mirounga leonina ...

Matt Wilson, the trust's countryside manager for the Suffolk and Essex coast, said he hoped the site would rival other UK seal colonies. This winter's breeding season, which began in November ...

The biggest iceberg on Earth is heading toward a remote island, creating a potential threat to penguins and seals inhabiting ...

Frozen mass known as A23a threatens penguin and seal colonies on South Georgia and is expected to make contact in two to four weeks The world’s largest and oldest iceberg is on a collision ...

Off of New England now, white sharks are beginning to come back because seal colonies are now coming back. In the 1800s, 1700s, in the United States, there were very abundant populations of seals ...

In southern elephant seal colonies, females return each year to the beach where they were born to give birth and mate again before returning to the sea for the rest of the year. Males arrive a few ...

The U.K. is home to two species of seal, the gray seal and the smaller harbor seal. In some areas of Scotland, harbor seal numbers are in decline or are at drastically depleted levels compared to 20 ...

The Farne Islands, which are cared for by the National Trust, host one of the largest grey seal colonies in England. Rangers have traditionally counted pups by foot on the land, but for the past ...

The Southern Ocean, which circles the globe without being blocked by land, is home to the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC), the longest of the world's ocean currents. Also known as the "channel ...

to survey major elephant seal colonies, having previously surveyed gentoo penguins, king penguins, wandering albatross and fur seals. South Georgia’s climate is changing and is particularly ...