Sleeping king penguins react differently to the sounds of predators than to non-predators and other sounds, when they are sleeping on the beach. Research carried out at the University of Roehampton, UK, has revealed that ...
Plants & Animals
Jul 6, 2016
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Climate has influenced the distribution patterns of Adélie penguins across Antarctica for millions of years.
Plants & Animals
Jun 29, 2016
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DNA tests have confirmed that one of the three southern rockhopper penguin chicks born at Osaka Aquarium Kaiyukan between June 4 and 6 was conceived through artificial insemination. This is the result of a project led by ...
Plants & Animals
Jun 28, 2016
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No colony is an island or a remote patch on sea ice on the coast of Antarctica. Emperor penguins move all around the frozen continent making one single interbreeding population for the whole species. A single circumpolar ...
Plants & Animals
Jun 22, 2016
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A San Francisco penguin that once sported a wetsuit after losing his feathers and who starred in a children's book has died at the age of 33, officials said this week.
Plants & Animals
May 6, 2016
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Multiple dispersals of penguins reached Australia after the continent split from Antarctica, including 'giant penguins' that may have lived there after they went extinct elsewhere, according to a study published April 26, ...
Paleontology & Fossils
Apr 26, 2016
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Waddling over the rocks, legions of penguins hurl themselves into the icy waters of Antarctica, foraging to feed their young.
Plants & Animals
Apr 8, 2016
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Since the Galapagos penguins can't clap, P. Dee Boersma will do it for them.
Ecology
Apr 7, 2016
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Losing the ability to fly gave ancient penguins their unique locomotion style. But leaving the sky behind didn't cause major changes in their brain structure, researchers from The University of Texas at Austin suggest after ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 1, 2016
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Tens of thousands of Antarctic penguins are estimated to be unable to return to their colony after a massive iceberg grounded there, according to a newly published study.
Environment
Feb 20, 2016
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