Peninsula Valdés in Chubut, Argentina, is a renowned wildlife sanctuary where sea lions gather along the rugged coastline. Surrounded by dramatic cliffs and the deep blue ocean, this area offers a ...

Highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1, a virus that spilled over from birds into marine mammals along the coast of South America, was linked to an estimated 52,000 pinniped deaths (seals and sea ...

Animal keepers have paid tribute to a sea lion who has died more than two decades after she settled into her home at a zoo. Colchester Zoo said Winnipeg, a Patagonian sea lion who was about 25 years ...

For the last year and a half, Americans have watched and worried as H5N1 bird flu racked dairy herds and killed hundreds of millions of commercially raised chickens, turkeys and ducks. But far less ...

When the H5N1 highly pathogenic avian influenza virus was discovered on a poultry farm in Asia in 1996, there was little indication that it would become so widespread and so destructive. Within 30 ...