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Move over, Moo Deng, there’s a new superstar baby animal that’s become a surprise viral sensation – a nine-month-old king penguin chick named Pesto whose species-defying growth spurt has made this big boy a worldwide hit.Continue ReadingCategory: Biolo… Continue reading Massive 50-lb king penguin chick Pesto becomes a surprise global star
Move over, Moo Deng, there’s a new superstar baby animal that’s become a surprise viral sensation – a nine-month-old king penguin chick named Pesto whose species-defying growth spurt has made this big boy a worldwide hit.Continue ReadingCategory: Biolo… Continue reading Massive 50-lb king penguin chick Pesto becomes a surprise global star
Large marine mammals such as baleen whales play a huge role in cycling iron through their marine environments, directly helping to boost phytoplankton growth and atmospheric carbon sequestration.Continue ReadingCategory: Biology, ScienceTags: Marine Bi… Continue reading Penguin poop is krilly important to ocean health
Scientists have discovered the fossil remains of what may be the largest penguins that ever lived. The bones, found on a beach in New Zealand, belonged to a giant bird that was more than three times the size of the biggest living penguins today.
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Continue reading Fossils reveal largest-ever penguin was probably bigger than you
A rigorous new genomic study has homed in on exactly when and where modern penguins originated. The study suggests the flightless birds first appeared in Australian and New Zealand coastal waters about 22 million years ago, and it was later that they s… Continue reading Gene study suggests penguins originated in warmer Australian waters
A team of scientists from the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) led by geographer Peter Fretwell has used satellite imagery of penguin poop captured by ESA’s Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission to calculate that there are 20 percent more emperor penguin colonie… Continue reading Satellites and penguin poop reveal new emperor penguin colonies
New Zealand was not only home to prehistoric giant parrots, but monster penguins as well. A set of bones found by amateur paleontologist Leigh Love in 2018 at the Waipara Greensand fossil site in North Canterbury in 2018 have been confirmed a… Continue reading Early "monster" penguin found in New Zealand
Climate change may be contributing to the penguin population crash at Halley Bay which is “unprecedented in the historical record.” Continue reading Unstable Ice Causes ‘Catastrophic Breeding Failure’ for Penguins
“This small archipelago, that measures only 15 kilometers from one end to the other, has more Adélie penguins than the entire rest of the Antarctic peninsula combined.” Continue reading Scientists Discover Hidden ‘Supercolony’ of 1.5 Million Penguins After Tracking Poop From Space
The account has a knack for getting underneath the skin of Aregentine Twitter users. Continue reading A Falkland Islands Twitter Account Is Argentina’s Biggest Troll