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Using high-resolution imaging capabilities aboard satellites in Earth's orbit, researchers were able to determine in a new study that Antarctica holds twice as many emperor penguins as initially thought.
The investigation was the first to demonstrate that it may be possible for biologists to conduct a census of... |
19 April 2012
08:48 GMT |
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Millions of years ago, New Zealand was inhabited by giant penguins, which rivaled humans in average height. According to a new study, Kairuku penguins were about 4 feet 6 inches (1.4 meters) tall. Fancy meeting one of these creatures at the beach one day!
The prehistoric penguin, whose name means “diver who re... |
29 February 2012
17:01 GMT |
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Cuteness can become a powerful weapon in the right hands, and the people behind the Real Chicks of Central Park are well aware of this fact. They developed a website which shares entertaining details from the lives of 8 penguin chicks, raised by the staff from the Central Park Zoo.
The officials are trying to raise ... |
16 November 2011
10:13 GMT |
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EA Sports, the simulation division of publisher Electronic Arts, has run a full season simulation using its own NHL 12 and the results show that Pittsburgh Penguins will pick up the Stanley Cup this season after beating the Chicago Blackhawks.The leading player for the Penguins will be Sidney Crosby, who will miss 17... |
6 October 2011
16:21 GMT |
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Biologists have documented the first instance of what they call the global warming-induced disappearance of an animal colony. The experts can no longer find even the smallest traces of a small colony of penguins that once lived on an island off the coasts of Antarctica.It has been proposed a long time ago that pengui... |
5 March 2011
05:54 GMT |
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Whenever scientists want to conduct studies of wildlife, they catch a few members of their targeted species, and tag them with collars, bands, GPS transmitters and so on. But a report says that doing so with penguins harms the creatures in more ways than one. Generally, penguins that are caught by researchers are out... |
13 January 2011
06:13 GMT |
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In case you ever wondered how come penguins are not cold, even after they take a bath in the icy waters of the Antarctic, you should know they have a secret weapon, that apparently they developed when they still lived in warm climates.A team of researchers from the University of Cape Town in South Africa concluded th... |
22 December 2010
10:17 GMT |
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The globally declining state of penguin populations worldwide has motivated many biologists and other scientists to investigate possible solutions to this crisis that could inform policymakers. French experts at the Centre d'ecologie fonctionnelle et evolutive, working together with colleagues from the Universit... |
11 February 2010
10:05 GMT |
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Evolutionary biologists looking into the evolutionary rates and patterns of Adelie penguins have recently determined that the animals appear to be evolving at a much faster pace than previously calculated. In the research, scientists looked at mitochondrial DNA samples collected from penguins currently living in rook... |
18 November 2009
05:52 GMT |
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It's a widely known fact that penguins are among the most cooperative animals when it comes to rearing their young ones. The males and females both share the responsibilities that come with having an offspring, and for this they have been often praised. But now, a new study has shown that this commitment lasts o... |
4 July 2009
04:02 GMT |
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Two somewhat troubled penguins at a Chinese zoo drew international attention on the place with their almost-nightly escapades into the nests of other penguin couples. The two males always tried to steal eggs that had not yet hatched, to keep them for their own, and they worked as a team to do it. Tired of their pushi... |
29 January 2009
13:01 GMT |
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Little (or fairy) penguins are very small birds, unable to fend for themselves in the harsh climate of the wild, where they often succumb to the claws of foxes, wild dogs, and other predators. For this reason, environmentalists brought two Maremmas sheepdogs to a small fairy colony in Australia's Middle Island, ... |
7 January 2009
07:47 GMT |
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The United States Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) announced that it placed six species of penguins under the protection of the 1979 Endangered Species Act, with another one being classified as threatened. Environmentalists saluted the decision, but criticized the Bush administration for not including three other spec... |
18 December 2008
09:49 GMT |
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Most penguin populations, some of which are iconic to the Antarctic regions, are in danger of declining or going extinct altogether, a new International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) report unveiled in Barcelona this week, where the World Conservation Congress is held. Statistics show that some populati... |
22 October 2008
06:53 GMT |
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Indeed, DDT has been banned in some countries for more than three decades now, but that doesn't mean that several million tons of toxic chemicals just disappeared into thin air during this time. Instead DDT insecticide has been frozen and stored in the Antarctic glaciers, which by the way are now slowly melting ... |
7 May 2008
10:46 GMT |
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The booming casual games industry has just got a new family member following Total Gameplay Studio's announcement of Penguins Mania, a simulation of penguin life based on figure-clicking action. Not related with the even more popular Club Penguin, the social game, Total Gameplay Studio focuses in a Spore-like ma... |
22 April 2008
03:23 GMT |
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