The thriving bird colonies likely grew over several decades because local shepherds had temporarily eliminated pumas ...

When Philip Sontag first visited Antarctica as a Ph.D. student, he brought back an unusual souvenir: a huge bag of penguin ...

The world’s largest iceberg A23a, with an area of about 3.5 thousand square metres (more than twice the size of London) and a height of ...

This is typically done by sampling their feces or what is inside the stomachs of dead birds, but this new method will help scientists understand just how much work it is for these penguins to get ...

According to scientists from the Akademik Vernadsky Antarctic Station, almost 4,000 penguins now live on Galindez Island. This number was counted by Svitozar Davydenko, a biologist of the 29th UAE.

The colossus penguin was probably a good hunter; Because larger penguins are known to be able to hold their breath longer, ...

It may seem like an odd aspect of behavior to study, but through their research the scientists were able to gauge a lot more insight into what impacts and threatens penguin populations.

This new scientific deep dive into the love lives of little penguins was conducted over 10 years and 13 breeding seasons. Scientists were looking to determine what little penguin pairings can ...

Divorce rates appear to be a more reliable predictor of the reproductive success of the colony than environmental factors ...

Little Penguins, as it turns out, aren't very faithful, and they aren't the only species destroying human illusions of unconditional 'love' in nature. While it's true that during breeding season, most ...

Little penguins "divorce" their partners to search ... Patrick Pester is the trending news writer at Live Science. His background is in wildlife conservation and he has worked with endangered ...