Australia is surrounded by the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu. And it is morphing as sea animals and birds bring it ever closer to these shores.

Camped on Antarctic sea ice with a ... shrimplike organisms eaten by seals, which explains why there are probably more fur seals in Antarctica today than before humans first arrived.

A British scientist died after being attacked by a huge seal ... and the Antarctic. 'She wanted to go down there for a year or so - it was the way she was made,' he said. 'Antarctica drove her ...

Mass elephant seal ... the Antarctic, the avian virus killed approximately 20,000 sea lions in South America, mainly in Chile and Peru. This week Uruguay also reported that some 2,300 fur seals ...

Over 500 people are working in Antarctica this season on BAS ... macaroni penguins and Antarctic fur and leopard seals. We will also monitor population and breeding success of light-mantled ...