Last week, a call for knitters to create tiny pullovers for oil-spill affected penguins went viral. Patterns for penguin knitwear from The Penguin Foundation bounced around social media. It was a bit of…
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Emperor penguins have been spotted breeding on ice shelves for the first time, where previously they were thought only to…
The drama and somewhat unintentional humour of first one and eventually three ships getting caught in heavy sea ice in the Southern Ocean has been closely followed since before Christmas. The images of…
Baby penguins can adapt to a variety of diets when primary food sources are scarce, a recent study has found. Despite predictions…
Penguins are a remarkable group of flightless birds. We tend to think of them as Antarctic birds, but they actually inhabit an extremely diverse range of habitats from subzero Antarctic coastline to the…
Although it is far from the power stations, roads and flight paths of the populated world, the Southern Ocean is already responding to climate change. Average sea temperatures in some parts have risen…
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…
A 20-year-old penguin, which was banded as a chick, is said to have provided invaluable information to the Department of…
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…
Paleontologists have created a model of a prehistoric penguin that stood nearly 1.5 metres tall, based on fossilised bones…
Ancient penguin DNA shows that Macquarie Island penguins have recovered genetic diversity in the past 80 years. Macquarie…
Eighty years after slipping to the brink of extinction, a colony of King Penguins at Macquarie Island in the Southern Ocean…
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