Penguin poop is stinky but useful. In Antarctica, the birds’ nutrient-rich guano allows mosses and other organisms to ...

Most of the penguins seemed to chat with others while they were in the sea, away from their breeding colonies.

Today, elephant seals are uncommon visitors to the Antarctic continent, and breed on subantarctic islands including Macquarie ...

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

Successful breeding was strongly related to the amount of krill in the diet, with few chicks fledging in years where krill was particularly scarce. The longest and most comprehensive study to date ...

Caption Footage from penguin-mounted mini video recorders shows four species of penguin eating jellyfish and other gelatinous animals of the open ocean, a food source penguins were not previously ...

Some of the penguins at the aquarium are in their 30s, which is double the normal life expectancy of African penguins in the wild.

The vast ice fields of barren whiteness stretch toward the horizon, creating one of the most isolated environments on the ...

Mystic Aquarium helped create the Species Survival Plan for African penguins. "Some of our mating pairs have been together ...

Humboldt penguins Invading rats with bodies up to 20 centimetres long have begun eating eggs and chicks, and some experts fear that unless the rats are eradicated, they could tip the Humboldt ...