Beachgoers at California’s Año Nuevo State Park were doing double takes after they spotted what looked like a giant elephant seal that had been dunked in purple paint during the annual molting season ...

PESCADERO — Every year from late December through March, scientists from the Beltran and Costa labs at UC Santa Cruz set out for the beaches of Año Nuevo State Park. There, thousands of elephant seals ...

Park officials eventually got to the bottom of its "striking appearance." ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An avian flu outbreak, which killed several elephant seals at California's Año Nuevo State Park last month, has spread to two ...

Locals at a California beach have been baffled after spotting a large elephant seal with a very unusual colouration.

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 ...

The H5N1 bird flu virus that devastated South American elephant seal populations has been confirmed in seals at California’s Año Nuevo State Park, researchers from the University of California, Davis ...

An avian flu outbreak, which killed several elephant seals at California's Año Nuevo State Park last month, has spread to two other mammal species, according to researchers. Laboratory testing ...