Carli Reeve is part of a grassroots movement gathering data, asking questions about the environmental implications of seismic ...

Fossils unearthed in New Zealand reveal Kumimanu fordycei, a giant penguin species from the Paleocene epoch, weighing around 350 pounds. This discover ...

Penguins are members of the Order Sphenisciformes. Some fossil records show one species reached 5 feet in height. That is quite frightening!

Satellite photos show emperor penguins in one region of Antarctica declined 22% in the past 15 years. That's significantly ...

The study shows this adaptation happened much earlier than thought—the previous oldest known evidence of birds nesting near the poles was a collection of immature penguin fossils from Antarctica ...

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The 16 emperor penguin colonies in that part of Antarctica represent a third of the global population. The estimated decline compares to an earlier estimate of a 9.5% reduction across Antarctica ...

Counting emperor penguins is dangerous on land, so scientists instead estimate numbers by examining large huddles of birds ...

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