Tag: penguin
Fossil Friday: leg bones lead to extinct giant penguin in New Zealand
New Zealand isn't a stranger to extinct big birds.
Penguin and seal poop create biodiversity hotspots in Antarctica
Poop comes in to save the day!
Penguins find unattended camera, snap a fabulous selfie
It's one of the coolest selfies out there -- it was made in Antarctica.
Ancient man-sized penguin found in New Zealand beach
It was a big one.
Complete wipeout: Just two penguin chicks survive from a colony of 40,000
Researchers are now trying to establish a protected area for the colony.
Scientists want you to look at photos of penguins. Yes, really
Antarctic researchers are in need of help - specifically, they need people to study photos of penguins to help them ...
Penguins Have Pretty Bad Taste, Genetic Study Shows
Penguins have lost most of their sense of taste - they can't detect the savory taste of the fish they ...
Meet an awesome blonde penguin
Seafarers on a 2012 National Geographic-Lindblad expedition to Antarctica found this amazing and rare "blond" penguin on a colony on ...
Why penguins can’t fly: you can’t be good at two things at once
This little fellow on the left might look like he's about to take off for a ...
Penguins are egotistical, mathematical simulation shows
Emperor penguins huddling. There's a rather common image that might pop inside someone's head when thinking ...
Climate change causes penguin colonies to decline by a THIRD
Researchers from the Natural History Museum in Madrid counted chinstrap penguins in Antarctica’s South Shetland Islands in 1991-1992 and again ...
Naked penguin chicks amaze scientists
In the last couple of years researchers have been confronted with a peculiar case in the Atlantic penguin colonies as ...
The emperor: major penguin colony disappears
It's another bad omen for life on Earth, as a colony of imperial penguins from the Antarctica peninsula has disappeared, ...
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