In 2023, a highly pathogenic bird flu leapt to seals in South America, killing some 17,000 elephant seal pups (about 97 ...
The H5N1 strain of avian flu is now passing easily among South America's elephant seals and drastically cutting herd ...
Analyzing a leg bone from a fossil site in Colombia, scientists have identified a massive “terror bird” that lived about 12 ...
They also estimated the bird’s weight to be 156 kilograms, about that of a giant panda (Ailuropoda melanoleuca), which would ...
The red-winged brant (Myiozetetes cayanensis), a member of the brant family that had never before been recorded in Argentina ... were able to record the bird's song, which is the main ...
The bone, described two decades after its discovery, suggests the species might have grown up to 20 percent bigger than other ...
Evolutionary biologist Federico Degrange from Argentina's Center for Research in Earth Sciences and colleagues found the bird ...
A bird that winters at perhaps the highest altitude is the giant coot in Peru, Chile, Bolivia and Argentina. Life at high altitudes is especially harsh in winter, when temperatures drop many ...
In mid-January, Ecuador confirmed the infection of a nine-year-old girl who had been in contact with infected birds. Under the state of sanitary emergency, Argentina will adopt special measures to ...
Researchers including a Johns Hopkins University evolutionary biologist report they have analyzed a fossil of an extinct ...
The bird flu outbreak killed over 17,000 elephant seals, including almost 97% of the pups, and left a scar on this vulnerable population.