5 March 2012 For whom the bell tolls: a Little Penguin. Belinda Cannell Grim reaper cuts swathes through the Little Penguins of Perth By Belinda Cannell, Murdoch University Little Penguins off the coast of Perth are being found dead – starved, battered, and in some cases almost completely beheaded – as elements both natural and manmade conspire against them. Penguin Island…
21 May 2013 From flapper to flipper: how the penguin lost its flight By Michael Parker, The Conversation Penguins can move underwater with the speed of a swallow or swift, but cannot fly even as far as a chicken. How did a bird…
22 February 2012 Penguin colony flourishing after being driven to brink of extinction By Justin Norrie, The Conversation Eighty years after slipping to the brink of extinction, a colony of King Penguins at Macquarie Island in the Southern Ocean…
17 May 2012 Research penguin dies after 20 years of study and observation Murdoch University A 20-year-old penguin, which was banded as a chick, is said to have provided invaluable information to the Department of…
29 February 2012 Introducing Kairuku, the giant prehistoric penguin North Carolina State University Paleontologists have created a model of a prehistoric penguin that stood nearly 1.5 metres tall, based on fossilised bones…
23 February 2012 Ancient DNA shows penguin recovery Griffith University Ancient penguin DNA shows that Macquarie Island penguins have recovered genetic diversity in the past 80 years. Macquarie…
