A new Humboldt penguin has joined the colony at Brookfield Zoo Chicago. Robin, who hatched on Tuesday, July 7, at the zoo, is now on public view in the Living Coast’s Rocky Shores habitat. According to the Brookfield Zoo Chicago press…
African penguins are facing an unprecedented decline; their numbers have dropped by 97 per cent in the last century. Francesca Page follows their plight and finds a population struggling to compete for food, space and attention in a society ignorant of…
Penguin droppings is making the Antarctic snow melt faster, a study shows. As temperatures rise, penguins are waddling closer to the south pole, with potential for this previously unrecognised phenomenon to affect a wider area.Snow algae are tiny single-celled…
Researchers find the birds’ guano feeds algal blooms that absorb significantly more solar energy Penguin poo is making the Antarctic snow melt faster, a study shows. As temperatures rise, penguins are waddling closer to the south pole, with potential for…
Home - Environment - Chinstrap penguin droppings across Antarctica release an estimated 540,000 tons of methane a year, and the bare ground between the guano patches gives off almost nothing Chinstrap penguin droppings across Antarctica release an estimated 490,000 metric tons of methane a…
Emperor penguins spend the darkest months of the year on Antarctic sea ice, hidden from optical satellites. A study published September 2, 2026, shows that a free European radar satellite can follow them through that darkness. With it, researchers tracked three colonies…
Timing, however, is critical. In the Antarctic trial, the researchers noted that emperor penguins may remain available for recapture for only a few hours before departing on their next foraging trip, so repeated manual surveys are both labour-intensive and prone…
A small group of Adélie penguins return to their colony. A mega-colony of these penguins was hit by a big die-off in early 2024. Ralph Vanstreels hide caption Sailing toward the Danger Islands, Dr. Ralph Vanstreels had a good idea of…
An integrative morphological and molecular study supports Pseudobenedenia lauriei as a valid parasitic flatworm species infecting the Antarctic fish Notothenia neglecta. A parasitic flatworm long shuffled between species names has been restored as a distinct species An integrative study published…
Some of the world's smallest penguins have boarded a flight from the UK for a move to Spain. The fairy penguins were given passports and boarding passes as they prepared to go from SEA LIFE Weymouth to SEA LIFE Benalmádena.
Flightless ocean athletes—torpedo swimmers of southern seas and ice.
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