Elephant seals are among the most extreme mammals on Earth. Males can weigh over 4 tons, fight violent battles that leave ...

The world's largest species of seal has been devastated by bird flu, which has wiped out half of all breeding females at a key wildlife haven near Antarctica, scientists warned Thursday. The remote ...

The emperor penguin population could be cut in half by the 2080s, IUCN predicted. The Antarctic fur seal population was already halved between 2000 and 2026, the agency noted. Experts attributed the ...

(NEW YORK) -- The status of several threatened species has been downgraded to endangered, and climate change is to blame, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature. The Red List ...

Emperor penguins (Aptenodytes forsteri) with chicks on the sea ice at Snow Hill Island in the Weddell Sea in Antarctica. (Photo by Wolfgang Kaehler/LightRocket via Getty Images) (NEW YORK) — The ...