Antarctic Peninsula — Even by Antarctic standards, Elephant Island is hard to reach, which is why few people have ever set foot there. We traveled three days by ship from Argentina, crashed through ...

Scientists suspect a deadly strain of bird flu, H5N1, has infected wildlife on Heard Island after observing a high mortality ...

An elephant seal pup born on Tasmania’s King Island is believed to be the first born since sealers came to the island in the 1800s. AN ELEPHANT SEAL has been born on King Island for the first time in ...

During the era of commercial whaling, fin whales were hunted so intensively that only a small percentage of the population in the Southern Hemisphere survived, and even today, marine biologists know ...

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

Leo Timmers, trans. from the Dutch by James Brown. Gecko, $18.99 (40p) ISBN 978-1-77657-434-6 When a “boisterous wave” sinks Arnold the elephant’s boat—the stormy sea is rendered in almost palpably ...

BAINBRIDGE ISLAND, Wash. — A remarkable wildlife moment was caught on camera this week, showing an elephant seal swallowing a shark whole just off the coast of Bainbridge Island. The video, which ...

WHIDBEY ISLAND, Wash. - Alex Hunter, a 23-year-old student at Bellevue College, was visiting his parents on Whidbey Island for the week when his grandfather, Dave Anderson, interrupted their dinner ...

Presented by Martyn Colbeck, the mild-mannered wildlife cameraman, Sri Lanka: Elephant Island focused on the lesser-known Asian elephants of Sri Lanka, as opposed to the more charismatic African ...